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8-letter words containing wa

  • gangways — Plural form of gangway.
  • gateways — Plural form of gateway.
  • get away — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • getaways — Plural form of getaway.
  • giftware — china, crystal, or other items suitable for gifts.
  • gigawatt — one billion watts. Abbreviation: GW, Gw.
  • give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • giveaway — an act or instance of giving something away.
  • gnawable — Capable of being gnawed.
  • goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
  • gondwana — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
  • gottwald — Klement [kle-ment] /ˈklɛ mɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, Czech Communist leader: prime minister 1946–48; president 1948–53.
  • greenway — any scenic trail or route set aside for travel or recreational activities.
  • growable — able to be cultivated or grown
  • guideway — a structure, usually made of concrete, that is used to support and guide trains or individual vehicles that ride over it.
  • gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
  • gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
  • gurdwara — a Sikh temple in India.
  • hallways — Plural form of hallway.
  • handwash — If you handwash something, you wash it by hand rather than in a washing machine.
  • handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
  • hardwall — a type of gypsum plaster used as a basecoat.
  • hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
  • haridwar — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N India, on the Ganges River: a holy city to Hindus.
  • hatchway — Nautical. hatch2 (def 1a).
  • hathaway — Anne, 1557–1623, the wife of William Shakespeare.
  • hawaiian — of or relating to Hawaii or the Hawaiian Islands.
  • hawaiite — (geology) An olivine basalt intermediate between alkali olivine and mugearite.
  • hayakawa — S(amuel) I(chiye) [ih-chee-ey] /ɪˈtʃi eɪ/ (Show IPA), 1906–92, U.S. semanticist, educator, and politician, born in Canada: senator 1977–83.
  • headwall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
  • headward — In the region or direction of the head.
  • heatwave — period of hot weather
  • hellward — towards hell
  • hereaway — hereabout.
  • hereward — called Hereward the Wake. 11th-century Anglo-Saxon rebel, who defended the Isle of Ely against William the Conqueror (1070–71): a subject of many legends
  • hiawatha — the central figure of The Song of Hiawatha (1855), a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: named after a legendary Indian chief, fl. c1570.
  • hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
  • hideaway — a place to which a person can retreat for safety, privacy, relaxation, or seclusion; refuge: His hideaway is in the mountains.
  • highwall — the unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
  • highways — Plural form of highway.
  • hindward — backward
  • hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
  • hiwassee — a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
  • hoistway — a shaft for a hoist or a lift
  • holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
  • homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
  • homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
  • horseway — a bridleway
  • hovawart — a medium-sized strongly-built dog of a breed with a long thick coat, a thick tuft of hair round the neck, and a long bushy tail
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