3-letter words containing w
- nlw — National Library of Wales
- nnw — north-northwest
- now — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- nsw — New South Wales
- nwt — Northwest Territories (of Canada)
- nwu — National Writers Union
- owe — to be under obligation to pay or repay: to owe money to the bank; to owe the bank interest on a mortgage.
- owl — any of numerous, chiefly nocturnal birds of prey, of the order Strigiformes, having a broad head with large, forward-directed eyes that are usually surrounded by disks of modified feathers: many populations are diminishing owing to loss of habitat.
- own — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- paw — father; pa.
- pew — bench in church
- pow — the head; poll.
- prw — parents are watching
- pwa — person with AIDS
- pwn — Slang. to totally defeat or dominate, especially in a video or computer game: You just got pwned! I pwned those guys in the end.
- pwr — pressurized-water reactor
- pwt — pennyweight
- qmw — Queen Mary and Westfield College
- raw — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- row — record
- rwa — Rwanda (international car registration)
- rwd — rear-wheel drive
- rwp — Remote Write Protocol
- rwy — railway
- saw — a sententious saying; maxim; proverb: He could muster an old saw for every occasion.
- sbw — south by west
- sew — to ground (a vessel) at low tide (sometimes fol by up).
- sfw — Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery: a South African wine producer
- sow — to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
- ssw — in a south-southwesterly direction
- swg — Standard Wire Gauge; a notation for the diameters of metal rods or thickness of metal sheet ranging from 16 mm to 0.02 mm or from 0.5 inch to 0.001 inch
- swl — Software Writer's Language
- swt — Standard Widget Toolkit
- swy — the game of two-up.
- taw — tav.
- tew — to beat (leather, etc) into a smooth condition
- tow — to pull or haul (a car, barge, trailer, etc.) by a rope, chain, or other device: The car was towed to the service station.
- twa — a member of a Pygmy people of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- twi — a Kwa language spoken in Ghana that is mutually intelligible with Fanti.
- two — a cardinal number, 1 plus 1.
- twp — stupid; daft
- uaw — (spelling) Misspelling of "IAW"?
- ucw — Union of Communication Workers, now part of CWU
- umw — United Mineworkers of America
- upw — Union of Post Office Workers
- usw — ultrashort wave
- uwb — ultrawideband
- uwo — Ukrainian Womens Organization
- uwu — Utility Workers Union
- vaw — a Hebrew letter