5-letter words containing wa
- jowar — Alt form jawar.
- kiowa — a member of a Plains Indian people of the southwestern U.S.
- kwara — a state of W Nigeria: mainly wooded savanna. Capital: Ilorin. Pop: 2 371 089 (2006). Area: 36 825 sq km (14 218 sq miles)
- liwan — iwan.
- lowan — mallee fowl.
- malwa — Beer made with millet.
- marwa — Safa and Marwa.
- mewar — Udaipur (def 2).
- mohwa — mahua.
- mowat — Farley (McGill) 1921–2014, Canadian writer.
- nawab — Also, nabob. a viceroy or deputy governor under the former Mogul empire in India.
- newar — a member of a Mongoloid people of Nepal.
- noway — in no way, respect, or degree; not at all; nowise: He was noway responsible for the accident.
- ofwat — Office of Water Services: a government body set up in 1989 to regulate the activities of the water companies in England and Wales, and to protect the interests of their consumers
- otway — Thomas, 1652–85, English dramatist.
- ozawa — Seiji [sey-jee] /ˈseɪ dʒi/ (Show IPA), born 1935, Japanese conductor in the U.S.
- powan — a freshwater whitefish, Coregonus clupeoides, occurring in some Scottish lakes
- poway — a city in SW California.
- rewax — to wax again
- rowan — the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
- rukwa — Lake, a shallow salt lake in SW Tanzania. About 1000 sq. mi. (2600 sq. km).
- sawah — an irrigated rice or paddy-field usually found in Indonesia or Malaysia
- schwa — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- sewan — wampum (def 1).
- sewar — a dagger from Sumatra
- showa — ("Showa") 1901–89, emperor of Japan 1926–89.
- shwas — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- sowar — an Indian cavalryman
- swack — a hard blow
- swage — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
- swain — a male admirer or lover.
- swale — a low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land.
- swalk — sealed with a loving kiss: sometimes written on the back of envelopes
- swami — an honorific title given to a Hindu religious teacher.
- swamp — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- swamy — swami.
- swang — simple past tense of swing1 .
- swank — dashing smartness, as in dress or appearance; style.
- swapo — South-West Africa People's Organization
- sward — the grassy surface of land; turf.
- sware — simple past tense of swear.
- swarf — an accumulation of fine particles of metal or abrasive cut or ground from work by a machine tool or grinder.
- swarm — a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
- swart — swarthy.
- swash — to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers.
- swath — the space covered by the stroke of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine.
- swati — Swat (def 2).
- swats — a special section of some law enforcement agencies trained and equipped to deal with especially dangerous or violent situations, as when hostages are being held (often used attributively): a SWAT team.
- swave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- swazi — a member of a Nguni people of Swaziland and the Republic of South Africa.