8-letter words containing wa
- twaddler — trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
- twanging — to give out a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument when plucked.
- twangler — a person who twangles
- twattler — a person who twattles; a chatterbox
- unawares — while not aware or conscious of a thing oneself; unknowingly or inadvertently.
- underway — occurring while under way: the underway activities on a cruise ship.
- unixware — (operating system) Novell's implementation of Unix System 5 heavily based on Release 4.2 but with enhancements and new bundled products. In 1993 Novell acquired Unix Systems Laboratories from AT&T along with the Unix trademark. UnixWare was the result of Novell's efforts to make Unix interoperable with Novell NetWare. In 1995 Novell sold UnixWare and the rights to the Unix operating system to SCO at a time when UnixWare was gainnig popularity. It was later the first 64-bit operating system on the Intel platform, and, in 1999, is the world's fastest-growing commercial operating system.
- unswathe — to free from something that swathes: to unswath the child of her bandages.
- unswayed — swaybacked.
- untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
- unwaived — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- unwalked — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- unwalled — not surrounded by walls, not having or protected by walls
- unwaning — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
- unwanted — not desired or needed; not wanted: My absence generated some unwanted attention.
- unwanton — done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty.
- unwarded — not warded or guarded; undefended
- unwarely — unwarily or incautiously; carelessly
- unwarily — not wary; not cautious or watchful, as against danger or misfortune.
- unwarmed — not warmed; unheated
- unwarned — not warned or cautioned; without warning
- unwarped — not warped, as a phonograph record or flooring.
- unwashed — not cleaned or purified by or as if by washing: unwashed dishes; the unwashed soul of a sinner.
- unwasted — waste (defs 26–28).
- unwatery — not watery
- unwaving — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- viewable — capable of being viewed; visible.
- wabanaki — Abenaki.
- wackiest — Superlative form of wacky.
- waddling — Present participle of waddle.
- wadeable — that can be waded: a wadable stream.
- waesucks — alas
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- waffling — to talk foolishly or without purpose; idle away time talking.
- wageless — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
- wagering — Present participle of wager.
- waggling — Present participle of waggle.
- waggoner — Alternative spelling of wagoner.
- wagonage — transportation or conveyance by wagon.
- wagoneer — One who drives a wagon.
- wagonful — a quantity of objects or people that will fill a wagon
- wagonway — A crude road for wagons.
- wagtails — Plural form of wagtail.
- wahpeton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- waiflike — Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc.
- wailings — Plural form of wailing.
- wailsome — wailful.
- wainscot — wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
- waisting — That which goes at the waist (of a person, as on a garment, or of an object).
- wait out — to remain inactive during the course of