8-letter words containing w, a
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- rainwear — waterproof or water-repellent clothing.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- raw data — data
- raw deal — unjust treatment
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk
- raw mode — (operating system) A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Systems that make this distinction for a disk file are generally regarded as broken. Compare rare mode, cooked mode.
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- re-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- read law — to study to become a lawyer
- rearward — Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.
- reawaken — rouse or arouse again
- redrawer — a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- redwater — a disease of cattle caused by the protozoan Babesia (or Piroplasma) bovis, which destroys the red blood cells, characterized by the passage of red or blackish urine. It is transmitted by tick bites
- rereward — rearward (defs 2, 3).
- reviewal — the act of reviewing.
- rewarded — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewarder — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rexxware — An implementation of REXX for Novell NetWare produced by Simware, Inc. in January 1994. It is used by LAN managers to automate LAN administration chores on a Novell NetWare server. As a scripting language, REXXWARE is an NLM (NetWare Loadable Module) that runs on Novell NetWare servers. It includes more than 275 NetWare-specific functions, plus the standard REXX keywords, instructions, built-in functions, flow-control, tracing, and error trapping and recovery features. REXXWARE is certified by Novell for use with NetWare. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- ring taw — ringer1 (def 4).
- riverway — the part of a river that boats can travel on, or the route or course of a river
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- rollaway — designed to be rolled out of the way or out of sight when not in use: rollaway bed.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- rot away — decay
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- royal we — we (def 5).
- run away — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- ryotwari — (in India) a system of land tenure in which land taxes are paid to the state
- s.w.a.t. — a special section of some law enforcement agencies trained and equipped to deal with especially dangerous or violent situations, as when hostages are being held (often used attributively): a SWAT team.
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- saltwort — any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
- sandwell — a unitary authority in central England, in West Midlands. Pop: 285 000 (2003 est). Area: 86 sq km (33 sq miles)
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.