6-letter words containing w
- avowry — a plea by a defendant in an action of replevin who admits taking the distrained goods and shows just cause for the taking.
- awaits — Plural form of await.
- awaked — waking; not sleeping.
- awaken — To awaken a feeling in a person means to cause them to start having this feeling.
- awakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of awake.
- awards — Plural form of award.
- awatch — watching or looking out for
- aweary — weary; tired (of)
- aweful — Misspelling of awful.
- aweigh — (of an anchor) no longer hooked into the bottom; hanging by its rode
- aweing — Present participle of awe.
- awfull — Archaic form of awful.
- awhato — the mummified body of a caterpillar killed by the fungus Cordyceps robertsii, sometimes used as a dye
- awheel — on wheels
- awhile — Awhile means for a short time. It is more commonly spelled 'a while', which is considered more correct, especially in British English.
- awhirl — in a whirling, confused state
- awless — displaying no awe; unawed.
- awmous — almous.
- awning — An awning is a piece of material attached to a caravan or building which provides shelter from the rain or sun.
- awoken — Awoken is the past participle of awake.
- awrack — in a wrecked or ruined condition
- awrong — in a wrong way; wrongly
- awsome — a frequent misspelling of awesome.
- ayword — a password, watchword
- bagwig — an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag
- balewa — Sir Abubakar Tafawa [ah-boo-bah-kahr tah-fah-wah,, ah-boo-bah-kahr] /ˌɑ buˈbɑ kɑr tɑˈfɑ wɑ,, ɑˈbu bɑˌkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1912–66, Nigerian statesman: prime minister 1957–66.
- ballow — a heavy club; a cudgel
- barlow — a large strong pocket-knife with a single blade
- barrow — A barrow is the same as a wheelbarrow.
- bartow — a city in central Florida.
- bashaw — an important or pompous person
- bassaw — Obsolete form of bashaw.
- bawbee — a former Scottish silver coin
- bawble — Misspelling of bauble.
- bawdry — obscene talk or language
- bawled — Simple past tense and past participle of bawl.
- bawler — to cry or wail lustily.
- bawley — a small fishing boat used off the coast of Essex and Kent
- bawtie — a dog
- bedews — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedew.
- begnaw — to gnaw at
- behowl — to howl at
- bellow — If someone bellows, they shout angrily in a loud, deep voice.
- benbow — John. 1653–1702, English admiral, noted esp for his heroic death during the War of the Spanish Succession
- bercow — John (Simon). born 1963, British Conservative politician; speaker of the House of Commons from 2009
- berwyn — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- beshow — a sablefish.
- besnow — to whiten
- bestow — To bestow something on someone means to give or present it to them.
- bewail — If you bewail something, you express great sorrow about it.