4-letter words containing wa
- waff — a puff or blast of air, wind, etc.
- wafl — WArwick Functional Language. Warwick U, England. LISP-like.
- wafs — a member of the Women in the Air Force, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
- waft — to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
- wafu — West African Football Union
- wagb — Whistler Alpine Guides Bureau
- wage — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
- wags — Plural form of wag.
- waid — (obsolete) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.
- waie — Obsolete spelling of way.
- waif — a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends.
- wail — to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
- wain — (initial capital letter) Astronomy. Charles's Wain.
- wair — A plank 6 feet long and 1 foot across.
- wais — Wide Area Information Servers
- wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
- waka — Prosody. tanka.
- wake — to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up).
- wako — Wisconsin Area Killifish Organization
- wald — George, 1906–97, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1967.
- wale — something that is selected as the best; choice.
- wali — The governor of a province in an Arab country.
- walk — 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.
- wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- waly — (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.
- wame — Scot. and North England. belly.
- wamp — (zoology) The common American eider.
- wand — a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
- wang — (dialectal, or, obsolete) Cheek; the jaw.
- wank — (of a male) to masturbate (often followed by off).
- want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- wany — Also, waney. waning; decreasing; diminished in part.
- waog — West Anglia Outdoor group
- waqf — An endowment made by a Muslim to a religious, educational, or charitable cause.
- warb — a dirty or insignificant person
- ward — (Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. merchant and mail-order retailer.
- ware — the first season in the year; spring.
- warg — (fantasy fiction, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. (from 20th c.).
- wari — (games) a board game of the mancala family.
- wark — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.
- warm — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warn — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- warp — OS/2
- wars — Plural form of war.
- wart — a small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the skin, usually caused by a papomavirus.
- wary — watchful; being on one's guard against danger.
- wase — (UK, dialect) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
- wash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- wasm — (humorous) An ideology, doctrine, theory or law that is no longer current or fashionable.