6-letter words containing wa
- ghazwa — (Islam) Any of the battles in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad personally participated.
- gowans — Plural form of gowan.
- gowany — (Scotland) Covered with daisies.
- growan — decomposed granite.
- haniwa — any of the terra-cotta models of people, animals, and houses from the Yayoi period of Japanese culture.
- hawaii — a state of the United States comprising the N Pacific islands of Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Kauai, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Niihau, and Oahu: a U.S. territory 1900–59; admitted to the Union 1959. 6424 sq. mi. (16,715 sq. km). Capital: Honolulu. Abbreviation: HI (for use with zip code), Haw.
- hawala — A system or agency for transferring money traditionally used in the Muslim world, whereby the money is paid to an agent who then instructs a remote associate to pay the final recipient.
- howard — Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
- hwange — a town in W Zimbabwe: coal mines. Pop: 42 581 (1992)
- inwale — (in an open boat) a horizontal timber binding together the frames along the top strake.
- inwall — to enclose with a wall.
- inward — toward the inside, interior, or center, as of a place, space, or body.
- jawans — Plural form of jawan.
- jawara — Sir Dawda (ˈdɔːdə). born 1924, Gambian statesman; president of The Gambia (1970–94); overthrown in a military coup
- jetway — A portable bridge put against an aircraft door to allow passengers to embark or disembark.
- jigawa — a state of N Nigeria. Capital: Dutse. Pop: 4 348 649 (2006). Area: 23 154 sq km (8940 sq miles)
- kagawa — Toyohiko [taw-yaw-hee-kaw] /ˈtɔ yɔˈhi kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1960, Japanese social reformer and religious leader.
- kawaii — (in the context of Japanese popular culture) cute.
- keyway — Machinery. a groove in a shaft, the hub of a wheel, etc., for receiving part of a key holding it to another part.
- khowar — an Indo-Iranian language of northwest Pakistan.
- kiswah — a decorative veil draped over the walls of the Kaʿba, now made of black brocade embroidered in gold with inscriptions from the Koran.
- kotwal — an Indian police officer.
- kuwait — a sovereign monarchy in NE Arabia, on the NW coast of the Persian Gulf: formerly a British protectorate. About 8000 sq. mi. (20,720 sq. km).
- kwacha — a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Malawi, equal to 100 tambala. Abbreviation: K.
- kwaito — A style of popular music similar to hip hop, featuring vocals recited over an instrumental backing with strong bass lines.
- kwanga — A type of Congolese bread made from manioc.
- kwanza — a paper money, cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of Angola, equal to 100 lwei: replaced the escudo in 1977.
- l wave — an earthquake wave that travels around the earth's surface and is usually the third conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- lebowa — a former Bantu homeland in NE South Africa, consisting of three separate territories with several smaller exclaves: abolished in 1993
- leeway — extra time, space, materials, or the like, within which to operate; margin: With ten minutes' leeway we can catch the train.
- logway — gangway (def 7).
- manhwa — (comics) Korean comics.
- manway — a passage in a mine wide enough for a single person.
- marwar — Jodhpur (def 1).
- mcewan — Ian (Russell). born 1948, British novelist and short-story writer. His books include First Love, Last Rites (1975), The Child in Time (1987), The Innocent (1990), Amsterdam (which won the Booker prize in 1998), Atonement (2001), Saturday (2005), and On Chesil Beach (2007)
- medway — a river in SE England, flowing through Kent and the Medway towns (Rochester, Chatham, and Gillingham) to the Thames estuary. Length: 110 km (70 miles)
- midway — several U.S. islets in the N Pacific, about 1300 miles (2095 km) NW of Hawaii: Japanese defeated in a naval battle June, 1942; 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- misway — (obsolete) A wrong way.
- mtwara — a seaport in SE Tanzania.
- mwanza — a city in N Tanzania, on Lake Victoria.
- narwal — Archaic form of narwhal.
- nawabs — Plural form of nawab.
- newari — a Sino-Tibetan language, the language of the Newar.
- newark — a city in NE New Jersey, on Newark Bay.
- no way — refusal
- no-way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- nonwar — a state of nonviolence
- norway — Norwegian Norge. a kingdom in N Europe, in the W part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 124,555 sq. mi. (322,597 sq. km). Capital: Oslo.
- oilway — a hole in a machine which allows oil to be inserted for lubrication
- ojibwa — a member of a large tribe of North American Indians found in Canada and the U.S., principally in the region around Lakes Huron and Superior but extending as far west as Saskatchewan and North Dakota.