7-letter words containing wa
- cowards — Plural form of coward.
- cowardy — A cowardly person (often used as a taunt by children).
- cutaway — In a film or video, a cutaway or a cutaway shot is a picture that shows something different from the main thing that is being shown.
- cutware — tools used in cutting, as knives or blades.
- dewater — to remove water from
- dingwad — (informal) A stupid person.
- diswarn — (obsolete) To dissuade from by previous warning.
- dogwash — /dog'wosh/ (A quip in the "urgency" field of a very optional software change request, ca. 1982. It was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first") A project of minimal priority, undertaken as an escape from more serious work. Many games and much freeware get written this way, including this dictionary.
- doorway — the passage or opening into a building, room, etc., commonly closed and opened by a door; portal.
- dowable — subject to the provision of a dower: dowable land.
- dowager — a woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband, especially the widow of a king, duke, etc. (often used as an additional title to differentiate her from the wife of the present king, duke, etc.): a queen dowager; an empress dowager.
- drywall — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- dwarfed — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- dwarves — a plural of dwarf.
- edgeway — A form of railway in which the road is causewayed up to the level of the top of the flanges.
- edwards — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- eggwash — beaten egg, usually mixed with milk or water, for brushing on pastry
- ellwand — a stick for measuring lengths
- endways — With its end facing upward, forward, or toward the viewer.
- eyewash — Cleansing solution for a person’s eye.
- fairway — an unobstructed passage, way, or area.
- fallway — (US) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or factory or the decks of a ship, providing access for material, goods or people.
- fanwank — (fandom slang, derogatory) Explanations invented by fans (of a television series etc.) to gloss over mistakes in continuity.
- faraway — distant; remote: faraway lands.
- fatware — (computing, informal) Bloatware.
- fishway — A structure built on or around dams or locks to faciliate the migration of fish.
- flowage — an act of flowing; flow.
- fly way — a route between breeding and wintering areas taken by concentrations of migrating birds.
- flyaway — fluttering or streaming in the wind; windblown: flyaway hair.
- flyways — Plural form of flyway.
- folkway — A custom or belief common to members of a society or culture.
- footway — a way or path for people going on foot.
- forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- forwarn — (transitive) To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).
- freeway — an express highway with no intersections, usually having traffic routed on and off by means of a cloverleaf.
- froward — willfully contrary; not easily managed: to be worried about one's froward, intractable child.
- gadwall — a grayish-brown wild duck, Anas strepera, found in temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- gaekwar — the title of the ruler of the former native state of Baroda in India
- gangway — a passageway, especially a narrow walkway.
- gateway — an entrance or passage that may be closed by a gate.
- getaway — a getting away or fleeing; an escape.
- go away — leave!
- godward — Also, Godwards. toward God.
- gunwale — the upper edge of the side or bulwark of a vessel.
- gwalior — a former state in central India, now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- hadaway — an exclamation urging the hearer to refrain from delay in the execution of a task
- halfway — to half the distance; to midpoint: The rope reaches only halfway.
- hallway — a corridor, as in a building.
- hawaiki — a legendary Pacific island from which the Māoris migrated to New Zealand by canoe
- hawalli — a town in E central Kuwait.