9-letter words containing wa
- hogwaller — Alternative spelling of hog waller.
- hold sway — have influence
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- hot water — trouble; a predicament: His skipping classes will get him into real hot water when exam time comes.
- houseware — Homeware.
- hwang hai — Older Spelling. Yellow Sea.
- hyperware — (hypertext) Software that implements or uses hypertext.
- ice water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- ice-water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- idle away — time, hours: pass lazily
- illawarra — a coastal district of E Australia, in S New South Wales. Pop: 404 626 (2002 est)
- in no way — You use in no way or not in any way to emphasize that a statement is not at all true.
- iowa city — a city in SE Iowa.
- irrawaddy — a river flowing S through Burma (Myanmar) to the Bay of Bengal. 1250 miles (2015 km) long.
- j. wanhal — Johann Baptist, Vanhal, Jan Křtitel.
- jackwagon — (US, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; a jerk; a jackass.
- japan wax — a pale-yellow, waxy, water-insoluble solid obtained from the fruit of certain sumacs, especially Rhus succedanea, native to Japan and China: used chiefly in the manufacture of candles, furniture polishes, and floor waxes.
- jaywalked — Simple past tense and past participle of jaywalk.
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- kaikawaka — a small pyramid-shaped New Zealand conifer, Libocedrus bidwillii, with pinkish bark and red wood
- karankawa — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians who lived in southeastern Texas until the mid 19th century.
- kathiawar — a peninsula on the W coast of India.
- kawaguchi — a city on SE Honshu, in central Japan, N of Tokyo.
- keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- kilowatts — Plural form of kilowatt.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- kittiwake — either of two small, pearl-gray gulls of the genus Rissa, the black-legged R. tridactyla of the North Atlantic and the red-legged and red-billed R. brevirostris, of the Bering Sea, both nesting on narrow cliff ledges and having a rudimentary hind toe.
- kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
- kwajalein — an atoll in the Marshall Islands, in E Micronesia. About 78 miles (126 km) long.
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
- kwangtung — Older Spelling. Guangdong.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- landwards — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- late-wake — a lyke-wake
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
- leewardly — (of a ship) tending to fall to leeward
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- legwarmer — a footless, stockinglike knitted covering for the leg, usually worn over tights, trousers, boots, etc., for warmth, as in a dance class or while exercising, or as a fashion accessory.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- limewater — an aqueous solution of slaked lime, used in medicine, antacids, and lotions, and to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
- lock away — put in prison
- long wave — Electricity. an electromagnetic wave over 60 meters in length.
- low water — water at its lowest level, as in a river.
- luftwaffe — air force.