7-letter words containing w
- budweis — České Budějovice
- budworm — a larval pest that feeds on buds and leaves
- bulwark — A bulwark against something protects you against it. A bulwark of something protects it.
- burweed — any of various plants that bear burs, such as the burdock
- bushwah — rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull: You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.
- buzzsaw — A buzzsaw is an electric saw consisting of a round metal disk with a sharp serrated edge. It is powered by an electric motor and is used for cutting wood and other materials.
- buzzwig — a bushy wig
- bwbasic — Bywater BASIC interpreter. A BASIC interpreter by Ted A. Campbell <[email protected]> which implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) in ANSI C, and offers a simple interactive environment including some shell program facilities as an extension of BASIC. The interpreter source has been compiled successfully on a range of ANSI C compilers on varying platforms including MS-DOS, Unix, and Acorn RISC OS. Version 2.10 was posted to news:comp.sources.misc, volume 40.
- by-blow — a passing or incidental blow
- by-word — a word or phrase associated with some person or thing; a characteristic expression, typical greeting, or the like.
- by-work — work done in addition to one's regular work, as in intervals of leisure.
- bywoner — a poor tenant farmer
- c and w — country-and-western.
- callows — Plural form of callow.
- camwood — a W African leguminous tree, Baphia nitida, whose hard wood was formerly used in making a red dye
- caraway — Caraway is a plant with strong-tasting seeds that are used in cooking. Caraway seeds are often used to flavour bread and cakes.
- cartway — a cart track
- carwash — a place, usually an area at a filling station, which has special equipment, such as rotating brushes and water jets, to wash a car
- cashews — Plural form of cashew.
- catawba — a member of a North American Indian people, formerly of South Carolina, now almost extinct
- catclaw — a variety of shrub with small spines and white or yellow flowers
- catspaw — a person used to serve the purposes of another; tool.
- catwalk — At a fashion show, the catwalk is a narrow platform that models walk along to display clothes.
- catworm — an active carnivorous polychaete worm, Nephthys hombergii, that is about 10cm (4in) long, having a pearly sheen to its body: often dug for bait
- cawdrey — Robert. 16th–17th-century English schoolmaster and lexicographer: compiled the first English dictionary (A Table Alphabeticall) in 1604
- cawings — Plural form of cawing.
- chew up — If you chew food up, you chew it until it is completely crushed or soft.
- chewers — Plural form of chewer.
- chewier — Comparative form of chewy.
- chewing — Present participle of chew.
- chewink — a North American bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- chinwag — a chat or gossipy conversation
- choctaw — a member of a Native American people of Alabama
- chorzow — an industrial city in SW Poland: under German administration from 1794 to 1921. Pop: 113 739 (2007 est)
- chowder — Chowder is a thick soup containing pieces of fish.
- chowing — Present participle of chow.
- chuchow — Zhuzhou
- clawing — a sharp, usually curved, nail on the foot of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird.
- clawson — a city in SE Michigan.
- clew up — to furl (a square sail) by gathering its clews up to the yard by means of clew lines
- clowder — a collective term for a group of cats
- clowned — Simple past tense and past participle of clown.
- cobwebs — mustiness, confusion, or obscurity
- cod war — any of three disputes that occurred in 1958, 1972–73, and 1975–76 between Britain and Iceland, concerning Iceland's unilateral extension of her fishing limits
- concrew — to grow together
- coowner — Someone who owns something together with one or more other people.
- cornrow — If someone wears their hair in cornrows, they braid their hair in parallel rows that lie flat upon their head.
- cow gum — a colourless adhesive based on a natural rubber solution
- cow pie — a piece of cow dung.
- cowards — Plural form of coward.