8-letter words containing w, a
- sandwort — any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
- sash saw — a small tenon saw used for cutting sashes
- sasswood — a tropical African tree, Erythrophleum suavolens, of the legume family, having a poisonous bark and hard, durable wood.
- saw edge — the serrated edge of a saw
- saw wood — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- saw-wort — a perennial Old World plant, Serratula tinctoria, having serrated leaves that yield a yellow dye: family Asteraceae (composites)
- sawblade — the blade of a saw
- sawbones — a surgeon or physician.
- sawdusty — filled with or suggesting sawdust.
- sawgrass — any of various sedges of the genus Cladium, of tropical and temperate regions, having spiny, serrated leaves.
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- sawn-off — (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon
- sawshark — a shark with a long, flat, saw-like snout from the family Pristiophoridae and found in waters from South Africa to Australia and Japan
- sawtooth — one of the cutting teeth of a saw.
- say what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- sb awe32 — (multimedia, music, hardware) A standard SB16 MultiCD sound card with the EMU8000 "Advanced WavEffect" music synthesizer integrated circuit. The card includes all the standard SB16 features as well as the Advanced Signal Processor and multiple interfaces supporting Creative, Mitsumi and Sony CD-ROM drives. The EMU8000 comes integrated with 1MB of General MIDI samples and 512kB of DRAM for additional sample downloading. It can address up to 28 MB of external DRAM. The SB AWE32 supports General MIDI, Roland GS, and Sound Canvas MT-32 emulation.
- scalawag — a scamp; rascal.
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- schwartz — Delmore [del-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈdɛl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- scofflaw — a person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawler — a person who scrawls.
- screwage — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
- sea view — view over the ocean
- sea wall — a strong wall or embankment to prevent the encroachments of the sea, serve as a breakwater, etc.
- sea wasp — any of various highly poisonous stinging jellyfishes of the order Cubomedusae, of tropical seas.
- sea whip — a gorgonian coral that forms a flexible colony resembling shrubbery on the ocean floor.
- sea wolf — any of several large, voracious, marine fishes, as the wolffish or sea bass.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- seawards — Also, seawards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
- seawater — the salt water in or from the sea.
- seawoman — a woman sailor or a woman who works on a ship or in the navy
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- sewerage — the removal of waste water and refuse by means of sewers.
- shadowed — of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shadwell — Thomas, 1642?–92, English dramatist: poet laureate 1688–92.
- shallows — The shallows are the shallow part of an area of water.
- shawabti — a figurine placed in an ancient Egyptian tomb to serve as a slave for the soul or as a substitute for the soul in performing forced labor.
- shawarma — roasted meat, as lamb or beef, cooked on a spit. a dish consisting of this meat, served wrapped in pita bread with tahini or hummus.
- shawnees — a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
- shawties — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- sherwani — a long coat closed up to the neck, worn by men in India
- show bag — a bag containing samples, promotional material, etc, given out at trade fairs and other such events
- show day — (in Australia) a public holiday in a state on the date of its annual agricultural and industrial show
- showable — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- showboat — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.