6-letter words containing w
- gnawed — to bite or chew on, especially persistently.
- gnawer — A rodent or other similar type of animal that gnaws.
- godown — (in India and other countries in Asia) a warehouse or other storage place.
- godwin — Also, Godwine [god-wi-nuh] /ˈgɒd wɪ nə/ (Show IPA). Earl of the West Saxons, died 1053, English statesman.
- godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
- gowans — Plural form of gowan.
- gowany — (Scotland) Covered with daisies.
- gowfer — a golfer
- gowned — a woman's dress or robe, especially one that is full-length.
- gowpen — (regional) A bowl made of the two hands cupped together.
- growan — decomposed granite.
- growed — a simple past tense and past participle of grow.
- growen — (obsolete) Past participle of grown.
- grower — a person who grows something: He is a grower of flowers and vegetables.
- growls — Plural form of growl.
- growly — resembling a growl in pitch and harshness: This cold has made my voice growly.
- grownd — Obsolete spelling of ground.
- growse — (UK, dialect, obsolete) To shiver; to have chills.
- growth — the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.
- guffaw — a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
- gw-ada — A new version of Ada/Ed?
- gweduc — geoduck.
- gweilo — (ethnic slur) A Caucasian person, in China (generally a man); a ‘foreign devil’.
- hallow — to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
- haniwa — any of the terra-cotta models of people, animals, and houses from the Yayoi period of Japanese culture.
- hankow — a former city in E Hubei province, in E China: now part of Wuhan.
- harlow — Jean, 1911–37, U.S. motion-picture actress.
- harrow — a borough of Greater London, in SE England.
- hawaii — a state of the United States comprising the N Pacific islands of Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Kauai, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Niihau, and Oahu: a U.S. territory 1900–59; admitted to the Union 1959. 6424 sq. mi. (16,715 sq. km). Capital: Honolulu. Abbreviation: HI (for use with zip code), Haw.
- hawala — A system or agency for transferring money traditionally used in the Muslim world, whereby the money is paid to an agent who then instructs a remote associate to pay the final recipient.
- hawick — a town in SE Scotland, in S central Scottish Borders: knitwear industry. Pop: 14 573 (2001)
- hawing — to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech.
- hawked — a noisy effort to clear the throat.
- hawker — a person who offers goods for sale by shouting his or her wares in the street or going from door to door; peddler.
- hawkes — John, 1925–1998, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hawkey — Obsolete form of hockey.
- hawkie — a cow, esp a favourite one
- hawkit — (of animals) having a white streak or spots on the face
- hawser — a heavy rope for mooring or towing.
- haymow — hay stored in a barn.
- hebrew — a member of the Semitic peoples inhabiting ancient Palestine and claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; an Israelite.
- heehaw — the braying sound made by a donkey.
- hewers — Plural form of hewer.
- hewing — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hewish — Antony, born 1924, British astronomer: discovered pulsars; Nobel Prize in Physics 1974.
- hewitt — Lleyton (ˈleɪtən). born 1981, Australian tennis player; US Open champion 2001, Wimbledon singles champion 2002
- hoihow — Haikou.
- hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- hongwu — (Zhu Yuanzhang) Hung-wu.
- horrow — (nonstandard, rare) Alternative form of horror.