6-letter words containing wa
- wagers — Plural form of wager.
- wagged — to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
- wagger — to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
- waggle — to wobble or shake, especially while in motion: The ball waggled slowly to a stop. The leaves of the tree waggled in the wind.
- waggly — waggling; unsteady.
- waggon — Alternative spelling of wagon.
- waging — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
- wagner — Honus [hoh-nuh s] /ˈhoʊ nəs/ (Show IPA), (John Peter) 1874–1955, U.S. baseball player.
- wagons — Plural form of wagon.
- wagram — a village in NE Austria: Napoleon defeated the Austrians here in 1809.
- wagwan — (Jamaica, Multicultural London English) Greeting equivalent to what's up or what's happening.
- wahabi — a follower of ʿAbd al-Wahhab (1703–1792), who stringently opposed all practices not sanctioned by the Koran. The Wahhabis, founded in the 18th century, are the most conservative Muslim group and are today found mainly in Saudi Arabia.
- wahine — (in Hawaii and Polynesia) a girl or young woman.
- wahoos — Plural form of wahoo.
- waiata — (New Zealand) A Māori folk song.
- waight — Obsolete spelling of weight.
- wailed — to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
- wailer — to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
- waired — Simple past tense and past participle of wair.
- wairua — a spirit or soul
- wais-r — a group of intelligence tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) later revised (WAIS-R) the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) later revised (WISC-R) the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale, no longer used, all of which emphasize performance and verbal skills and give separate scores for subtests in vocabulary, arithmetic, memory span, assembly of objects, and other abilities.
- waists — Plural form of waist.
- waited — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- waiter — a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waived — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- waiver — an intentional relinquishment of some right, interest, or the like.
- waives — Plural form of waive.
- wakame — a brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida, of coastal Japan, Korea, etc., growing in coarse, stringy clumps and usually dried for use in Asian soups, salads, and side dishes.
- wakane — a type of seaweed
- wakens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waken.
- waketh — Archaic third-person singular form of wake.
- wakeup — The act of waking up.
- wakiki — shells formerly used as currency in Melanesia
- waking — to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up).
- walays — Sir William, Wallace, Sir William.
- walden — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- waldos — Plural form of waldo.
- walers — Plural form of waler.
- walesa — Lech [lek] /lɛk/ (Show IPA), born 1943, Polish labor leader: a leader of Solidarity 1980; president 1990–96; Nobel Peace Prize 1983.
- waling — something that is selected as the best; choice.
- walked — Simple past tense and past participle of walk.
- walker — Alice, born 1944, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- walkie — A walkie-talkie.
- walkup — Alternative form of walk-up.
- wallah — a person in charge of, employed at, or concerned with a particular thing (used in combination): a book wallah; a ticket wallah.
- wallas — Plural form of walla.
- walled — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- waller — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- wallet — a flat, folding pocketbook, especially one large enough to hold paper money, credit cards, driver's license, etc., and sometimes having a compartment for coins.
- wallis — Harold Brent [brent] /brɛnt/ (Show IPA), ("Hal") 1899–1986, U.S. film producer.