7-letter words containing wa
- hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
- headway — headroom (def 2).
- hewable — capable of being hewed
- heyward — DuBose [duh-bohz] /dəˈboʊz/ (Show IPA), 1885–1940, U.S. playwright, novelist, and poet.
- highway — a main road, especially one between towns or cities: the highway between Los Angeles and Seattle.
- hogwash — refuse given to hogs; swill.
- hot war — open military conflict; an armed conflict between nations: The increasing tension in the Middle East could lead to a hot war.
- hotwash — Discussions and evaluations of an agency's (or multiple agencies') performance following an exercise, training session, or major event.
- hwainan — a city in central Anhui province, in E China.
- inwards — toward the inside, interior, or center, as of a place, space, or body.
- janeway — Elizabeth (Hall) 1913–2005, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- jaywalk — to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
- kahawai — (NZ) Arripis trutta, a marine fish found around the southeastern coast of Australia and New Zealand, having a dark bluish-green body with indistinct rows of spots forming narrow irregular bands on the upper sides.
- kajawah — a pannier used on a camel
- kashiwa — a city in E Honshu, Japan.
- kawagoe — a city in central Honshu, Japan, NW of Tokyo.
- kewanee — a city in NW Illinois.
- keyways — Plural form of keyway.
- kiwanis — an organization founded in 1915 for the promulgation of higher ideals in business, industrial, and professional life.
- kokowai — a type of clay used in decoration because of its red colour
- korowai — a decorative woven cloak worn by a Māori chief
- kotwali — a police station.
- kotwals — Plural form of kotwal.
- kuwaiti — a native or inhabitant of Kuwait.
- kwaiken — a curved knife formerly used by Japanese women to commit suicide.
- kwangju — a city in SW South Korea.
- kwangsi — Guangxi
- kwanzaa — a harvest festival celebrated from Dec. 26th until Jan. 1st in some African-American communities.
- kwanzas — Plural form of kwanza.
- kwartje — a silver 25-cent piece of the Netherlands.
- kwazulu — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in South Africa, in Natal: abolished in 1993 and became part of the new province of KwaZulu-Natal in 1994. Capital: Ulundi
- laneway — (Canada) A narrow roadway; a lane.
- layaway — layaway plan.
- leeward — pertaining to, situated in, or moving toward the quarter toward which the wind blows (opposed to windward).
- lichway — a path used to carry a coffin into a church or to burial
- lifeway — a way of life; a manner of living.
- luangwa — a river in E Zambia, flowing SSW to the Zambezi River. 500 miles (805 km) long: forms part of boundary with Mozambique.
- malware — software intended to damage a computer, mobile device, computer system, or computer network, or to take partial control over its operation: tips on finding and removing viruses, spyware, and other malware.
- manward — Also, manwards. toward humankind: The church directed its attention manward as well as heavenward.
- massawa — a seaport in E Eritrea, in N Ethiopia, on the Red Sea.
- medawar — Peter Brian, 1915–87, English zoologist and anatomist, born in Brazil: Nobel Prize in medicine 1960.
- midways — Plural form of midway.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- mwalimu — a teacher
- nagware — Computer software that is free for a trial period during which the user is frequently reminded on screen to register and pay for the program in order to continue using it when the trial period is over.
- narwals — Plural form of narwal.
- nayward — the negative view
- netware — Novell NetWare
- newwave — A graphical user interface and object-oriented environment from Hewlett-Packard, based on Windows and available on Unix workstations.
- nonwage — Not of or pertaining to a wage.