6-letter words containing w, p
- powwow — a large gathering organized by North American Indians for socializing, dancing, singing, and celebrating their culture.
- prawle — a brawl
- prewar — before the war: prewar prices.
- prowar — in favour of or supporting war
- prowed — the forepart of a ship or boat; bow.
- prower — valiant.
- psywar — psychological warfare.
- pulwar — a light Indian river boat used for carrying cargo
- quapaw — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Arkansas, now living mostly in northeastern Oklahoma.
- replow — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- rewrap — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- ripsaw — a saw for cutting wood with the grain.
- scrawp — to scratch (the skin) to relieve itching
- sew up — to join or attach by stitches.
- spawny — resembling spawn
- spewer — to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
- sprawl — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- swampy — of the nature of, resembling, or abounding in swamps.
- sweeps — a sweepstakes.
- sweepy — sweeping.
- swiper — a person who deals a swipe
- swipes — a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
- swipey — drunk
- swiple — the part of a flail that strikes the grain in threshing
- swoopy — tending to swoop
- tawpie — a foolish or thoughtless young person.
- two-up — a game in which two players bet that two tossed coins will land either with matching or nonmatching sides facing up.
- unwept — not wept for; unmourned: an unwept loss.
- unwrap — to remove or open the wrapping of.
- up-bow — (in bowing on a stringed instrument) a stroke toward the heel of the bow: indicated in scores by the symbol V (opposed to down-bow).
- upblow — to inflate; blow up
- updraw — to draw up
- upflow — to flow upwards
- upgrow — to become more adult
- upsway — to swing upwards in the air
- uptown — to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city: He rode uptown on the bus.
- upwaft — to waft upwards
- upward — toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.
- upwarp — a geologic structure, usually of relatively large dimensions, whose flanks slope gradually away from the center.
- upwell — to well up, as water from a spring.
- upwind — toward or against the wind or the direction from which it is blowing: The hunters stalked upwind.
- upwrap — a fold with downward sloping layers; an anticline
- wakeup — The act of waking up.
- walkup — Alternative form of walk-up.
- wallop — to beat soundly; thrash.
- wampee — an Asian tree, Clausena wampi, and its fruit
- wampum — Also called peag, seawan, sewan. cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and sometimes spiritual purposes, especially such beads when white but also including the more valuable black or dark-purple varieties.
- wampus — a strange or objectionable person; lout.
- wapiti — elk (def 2).
- wapper — (UK, dialect) A gudgeon.