4-letter words containing w
- flow — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- fowl — the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. Compare domestic fowl.
- fpwu — Federal Printing Workers Union
- frow — a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- fwiw — For what it's worth.
- gawd — Eye dialect of god.
- gawk — to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
- gawn — (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.
- gawp — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
- glew — Obsolete form of glue.
- glow — a light emitted by or as if by a substance heated to luminosity; incandescence.
- gmwu — General and Municipal Workers Union
- gnaw — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- gowd — gold.
- gowf — golf
- gowk — British Dialect. cuckoo.
- gowl — (obsolete) To weep angrily; to howl.
- gown — a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.
- grew — simple past tense of grow.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- gtwa — Greater Toronto Workers Assembly
- gwen — a female given name, form of Gwendolyn or Guenevere.
- gwyn — Eleanor ("Nell") 1650–87, English actress: mistress of Charles II.
- hawk — a medium-range, mobile U.S. surface-to-air missile system.
- hawm — to move awkwardly
- haws — to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.
- hawt — Eye dialect or leet spelling of hot.
- hewe — (obsolete) A domestic; a servant or retainer.
- hewn — felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.
- hews — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hgwy — highway
- howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
- howf — a haunt, esp a public house
- howk — to dig (out or up)
- howl — to utter a loud, prolonged, mournful cry, as that of a dog or wolf.
- hows — and how!, Informal. certainly! you bet!: Am I happy? And how!
- hwan — a former monetary unit of South Korea.
- hwyl — emotional fervour, as in the recitation of poetry
- ibew — International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- icws — International Core War Society.
- iiwi — a Hawaiian honeycreeper, Vestiaria coccinea, having a red body, black wings, and a deeply curved pinkish-red bill.
- ijaw — Ijo.
- ilwu — International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
- iowa — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Capital: Des Moines. Abbreviation: IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.
- iwan — a vaulted portal opening onto a courtyard: used often in Iranian mosque architecture.
- iway — information superhighway
- iwis — certainly.
- jawa — Java2
- jawn — Obsolete form of yawn.
- jawp — a splash, spurt, or drop of water.