7-letter words containing w, a
- bawling — to cry or wail lustily.
- baytown — city in SE Tex., on Galveston Bay, near Houston: pop. 66,000
- baywood — the light soft wood of a tropical American mahogany tree, Swietenia macrophylla, of the bay region of SE Mexico
- bearpaw — a clam of the genus Hippopus, having a ridged, white shell with purplish-red spots.
- becrawl — to crawl all over
- bedward — towards bed
- bedwarf — to greatly hamper the growth of
- beeswax — Beeswax is wax that is made by bees and used especially for making candles and furniture polish.
- beltway — A beltway is a road that goes around a city or town, to keep traffic away from the centre.
- beswarm — to swarm over
- beweary — to cause to be weary
- bezwada — former name of Vijayawada.
- bikeway — A bikeway is a road, route, or path intended for use by cyclists.
- blawort — the plant Campanula rotundifolia
- boswash — the heavily populated area extending from Boston to Washington and including New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
- bow oar — an oarsman at the bow of a boat
- bow saw — a saw having a narrow blade held at both ends by a bowed handle.
- bowhead — a large-mouthed arctic whale, Balaena mysticetus, that has become rare through overfishing but is now a protected species
- bowyang — one of a pair of bowyangs
- bradawl — an awl used to pierce wood, leather, or other materials for the insertion of brads, screws, etc
- branwen — a sister of Bran: her son, by Matholwych, was killed by Evnissyen.
- brawler — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brawley — a city in S California.
- brawlie — in a fine or healthy manner
- brewage — a product of brewing; brew
- bucksaw — a woodcutting saw having its blade set in a frame and tensioned by a turnbuckle across the back of the frame
- bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
- bushwah — rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull: You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.
- buzzsaw — A buzzsaw is an electric saw consisting of a round metal disk with a sharp serrated edge. It is powered by an electric motor and is used for cutting wood and other materials.
- bwbasic — Bywater BASIC interpreter. A BASIC interpreter by Ted A. Campbell <[email protected]> which implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) in ANSI C, and offers a simple interactive environment including some shell program facilities as an extension of BASIC. The interpreter source has been compiled successfully on a range of ANSI C compilers on varying platforms including MS-DOS, Unix, and Acorn RISC OS. Version 2.10 was posted to news:comp.sources.misc, volume 40.
- c and w — country-and-western.
- callows — Plural form of callow.
- camwood — a W African leguminous tree, Baphia nitida, whose hard wood was formerly used in making a red dye
- caraway — Caraway is a plant with strong-tasting seeds that are used in cooking. Caraway seeds are often used to flavour bread and cakes.
- cartway — a cart track
- carwash — a place, usually an area at a filling station, which has special equipment, such as rotating brushes and water jets, to wash a car
- cashews — Plural form of cashew.
- catawba — a member of a North American Indian people, formerly of South Carolina, now almost extinct
- catclaw — a variety of shrub with small spines and white or yellow flowers
- catspaw — a person used to serve the purposes of another; tool.
- catwalk — At a fashion show, the catwalk is a narrow platform that models walk along to display clothes.
- catworm — an active carnivorous polychaete worm, Nephthys hombergii, that is about 10cm (4in) long, having a pearly sheen to its body: often dug for bait
- cawdrey — Robert. 16th–17th-century English schoolmaster and lexicographer: compiled the first English dictionary (A Table Alphabeticall) in 1604
- cawings — Plural form of cawing.
- chinwag — a chat or gossipy conversation
- choctaw — a member of a Native American people of Alabama
- clawing — a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird.
- clawson — a city in SE Michigan.
- cod war — any of three disputes that occurred in 1958, 1972–73, and 1975–76 between Britain and Iceland, concerning Iceland's unilateral extension of her fishing limits
- cowards — Plural form of coward.