7-letter words containing w, d, a
- daywear — clothes for everyday or informal wear
- daywork — a form of work that is calculated and paid for on a daily basis
- despawn — (video games) To dematerialize; to disappear from the game world.
- dewater — to remove water from
- dewclaw — a nonfunctional claw in dogs; the rudimentary first digit
- dewfall — the formation or settling of dew; the dew which is deposited
- dewlaps — Plural form of dewlap.
- dingwad — (informal) A stupid person.
- disavow — to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate: He disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.
- diswarn — (obsolete) To dissuade from by previous warning.
- dogwash — /dog'wosh/ (A quip in the "urgency" field of a very optional software change request, ca. 1982. It was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first") A project of minimal priority, undertaken as an escape from more serious work. Many games and much freeware get written this way, including this dictionary.
- doorway — the passage or opening into a building, room, etc., commonly closed and opened by a door; portal.
- dorhawk — nightjar
- dowable — subject to the provision of a dower: dowable land.
- dowager — a woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband, especially the widow of a king, duke, etc. (often used as an additional title to differentiate her from the wife of the present king, duke, etc.): a queen dowager; an empress dowager.
- dowland — John, 1563–1626, English lutenist and composer.
- dragsaw — a large power saw having a reciprocating blade, as a power hacksaw for metals or a lumbermill saw.
- draw in — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw on — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw up — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drawbar — a heavy bar, often made of steel, attached to the rear of a tractor and used as a hitch for pulling machinery, as a plow or mower.
- drawboy — an apparatus for controlling and manipulating the harness cords on a power loom.
- drawees — Plural form of drawee.
- drawers — a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- drawing — an act of drawing.
- drawled — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawler — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- dry law — a law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages.
- drywall — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- dubawnt — a river in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada, flowing NE to Baker Lake. 580 miles (933 km) long.
- dwarfed — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- dwarves — a plural of dwarf.
- eadwine — Edwin (def 1).
- edgeway — A form of railway in which the road is causewayed up to the level of the top of the flanges.
- edwards — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- ellwand — a stick for measuring lengths
- endways — With its end facing upward, forward, or toward the viewer.
- fanweed — the pennycress, Thlaspi arvense.
- fatwood — kindling; lightwood.
- forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- froward — willfully contrary; not easily managed: to be worried about one's froward, intractable child.
- gadwall — a grayish-brown wild duck, Anas strepera, found in temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- godward — Also, Godwards. toward God.
- gwyniad — A freshwater fish native to Bala Lake in Wales.
- hadaway — an exclamation urging the hearer to refrain from delay in the execution of a task
- handsaw — any common saw with a handle at one end for manual operation with one hand.
- handsew — to sew by hand.
- hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
- haywood — William Dudley ("Big Bill") 1869–1928, U.S. labor leader: a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World; in the Soviet Union after 1921.
- headsaw — a saw that cuts and trims logs as they enter a mill.