8-letter words containing wa
- moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- motorway — an expressway.
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- nanowatt — a unit of power equal to one billionth of a watt
- nasarawa — a state of Nigeria, in the centre east of Abuja. Capital: Lafia. Pop: 1 863 275(2006). Area: 27 117 sq km (10 470 sq miles)
- new wave — a movement, trend, or vogue, as in art, literature, or politics, that breaks with traditional concepts, values, techniques, or the like.
- newwaver — a member of a new wave
- neyagawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- nottaway — a river in SW Quebec, Canada, flowing NW to James Bay. 140 miles (225 km) long.
- nottoway — a river in S Virginia, flowing SE to the Blackwater River at the North Carolina border. 170 miles (274 km) long.
- nowadays — at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
- obwalden — one of the two divisions of the canton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 189 sq. mi. (490 sq. km). Capital: Sarnen.
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
- outwaste — to squander or use up wastefully
- outwatch — to outdo or surpass in watching.
- ovenware — heat-resistant dishes of glass, pottery, etc., for baking and serving food; bakeware.
- oversway — to overrule
- overwarm — to make too warm
- overwary — excessively wary
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- owatonna — a city in S Minnesota.
- parkward — towards a park
- part way — Part way means part of the way or partly.
- part-way — at or to a part of the way or distance: Shall I walk you partway? I'm already partway home.
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- picowave — to irradiate (food) with gamma rays in order to retard spoilage.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- post-war — following a major conflict
- put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- qawwalis — Plural form of qawwali.
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- re-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- rearward — Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.
- reawaken — rouse or arouse again
- redwater — a disease of cattle caused by the protozoan Babesia (or Piroplasma) bovis, which destroys the red blood cells, characterized by the passage of red or blackish urine. It is transmitted by tick bites
- rereward — rearward (defs 2, 3).
- reviewal — the act of reviewing.
- rewarded — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewarder — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rexxware — An implementation of REXX for Novell NetWare produced by Simware, Inc. in January 1994. It is used by LAN managers to automate LAN administration chores on a Novell NetWare server. As a scripting language, REXXWARE is an NLM (NetWare Loadable Module) that runs on Novell NetWare servers. It includes more than 275 NetWare-specific functions, plus the standard REXX keywords, instructions, built-in functions, flow-control, tracing, and error trapping and recovery features. REXXWARE is certified by Novell for use with NetWare. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity