7-letter words containing wa
- waiteth — Archaic third-person singular form of wait.
- waiting — an act or instance of waiting or awaiting; delay; halt: a wait at the border.
- waitron — a person of either sex who waits on tables; waiter or waitress.
- waivers — Plural form of waiver.
- waiving — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- wakanda — the worship of nature among the indigenous North American peoples
- wake up — awake from sleep
- wake-up — a watching, or a watch kept, especially for some solemn or ceremonial purpose.
- wakeful — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- wakeman — a watchman
- wakened — to rouse from sleep; wake; awake; awaken.
- wakener — One who wakens.
- waksman — Selman Abraham [sel-muh n] /ˈsɛl mən/ (Show IPA), 1888–1973, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1952.
- walcott — Derek, born 1930, West Indian poet and playwright: Nobel prize 1992.
- walk it — to win easily
- walk on — Also called walking part. a small part in a play or other entertainment, especially one without speaking lines. Compare bit2 (def 6).
- walk-in — of or relating to persons who walk into a place from the street, especially irregularly or without an appointment: walk-in customers; walk-in sales; a walk-in patient.
- walk-on — Also called walking part. a small part in a play or other entertainment, especially one without speaking lines. Compare bit2 (def 6).
- walk-up — an apartment above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
- walkers — Plural form of walker.
- walketh — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of walk.
- walkies — the act of taking a dog for a walk
- walking — considered as a person who can or does walk or something that walks: The hospital is caring for six walking patients. He's walking proof that people can lose weight quickly.
- walkman — A Walkman is a small cassette player with light headphones which people carry around so that they can listen to music, for example while they are travelling.
- walkout — a strike by workers.
- walkups — Plural form of walkup.
- walkure — See The Ring of the Nibelung.
- walkway — any passage for walking, especially one connecting the various areas of a ship, factory, park, etc.
- wall in — enclose
- wall up — If someone walls up a room, or if someone is walled up in it, walls are built blocking every door so that nobody can get in or out.
- wallaba — any of several trees belonging to the genus Eperua, of the legume family, native to the Guianas and northern Brazil.
- wallaby — any of various small and medium-sized kangaroos of the genera Macropus, Thylogale, Petrogale, etc., some of which are no larger than rabbits: several species are endangered.
- wallace — Alfred Russel [ruhs-uh l] /ˈrʌs əl/ (Show IPA), 1823–1913, English naturalist, explorer, and author.
- wallach — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1931, German chemist: Nobel prize 1910.
- wallahs — Plural form of wallah.
- wallets — Plural form of wallet.
- walleye — Also called walleyed pike, jack salmon. a large game fish, Stizostedion vitreum, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of northeastern North America; pikeperch.
- wallies — Plural form of wally.
- walling — Present participle of wall.
- walloon — one of a people inhabiting chiefly the southern and southeastern parts of Belgium and adjacent regions in France.
- wallops — Plural form of wallop.
- wallows — Plural form of wallow.
- walnuts — Plural form of walnut.
- walpole — Horace, 4th Earl of Orford [awr-ferd] /ˈɔr fərd/ (Show IPA), (Horatio Walpole) 1717–97, English novelist and essayist (son of Sir Robert Walpole).
- walsall — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- walters — Bruno [broo-noh] /ˈbru noʊ/ (Show IPA), (Bruno Schlesinger) 1876–1962, German opera and symphony conductor, in U.S. after 1939.
- waltham — a city in E Massachusetts.
- waltzed — Simple past tense and past participle of waltz.
- waltzer — a ballroom dance, in moderately fast triple meter, in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles, taking one step to each beat.
- waltzes — Plural form of waltz.