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9-letter words containing wa

  • breakaway — A breakaway group is a group of people who have separated from a larger group, for example because of a disagreement.
  • breakwall — breakwater
  • breezeway — a roofed passageway connecting two buildings, sometimes with the sides enclosed
  • bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
  • browallia — any plant of the Browallia genus of South American flowering plants
  • bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
  • burrawang — any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut
  • busy-wait — (programming)   To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
  • by way of — You use by way of when you are explaining the purpose of something that you have said or are about to say. For example, if you say something by way of an introduction, you say it as an introduction.
  • cableways — Plural form of cableway.
  • cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
  • candlewax — The wax of a candle.
  • carraways — Plural form of carraway.
  • cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
  • cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
  • castaways — Plural form of castaway.
  • caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
  • causeways — Plural form of causeway.
  • cell wall — the outer layer of a cell, esp the structure in plant cells that consists of cellulose, lignin, etc, and gives mechanical support to the cell
  • cellarway — the entrance leading into a cellar
  • cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
  • chinaware — articles made of china, esp those made for domestic use
  • chippeway — Chippewa.
  • churchway — a road that leads to a church
  • civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
  • clearways — Plural form of clearway.
  • cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
  • coastward — towards the coast
  • cockswain — coxswain
  • code walk — (programming)   Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
  • cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
  • coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • colorways — Plural form of colorway.
  • colourway — one of several different combinations of colours in which a given pattern is printed on fabrics, wallpapers, etc
  • come away — to become detached
  • cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
  • cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
  • cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
  • coxswains — Plural form of coxswain.
  • creamware — a type of earthenware with a deep cream body developed about 1720 and widely produced
  • creek war — an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.
  • crib-wall — a supporting wall constructed by laying cribs at right angles to each other, as in cribwork
  • crimeware — (computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.
  • crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
  • crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
  • crossways — crosswise.
  • cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
  • cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
  • cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality)   A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
  • daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
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