Words containing wan
3 letter words containing wan
- wan — of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
4 letter words containing wan
- hwan — a former monetary unit of South Korea.
- iwan — a vaulted portal opening onto a courtyard: used often in Iranian mosque architecture.
- swan — Sir Joseph Wilson, 1828–1914, British chemist, electrical engineer, and inventor.
- wand — a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
5 letter words containing wan
- aswan — an ancient town in SE Egypt, on the Nile, just below the First Cataract. Pop: 249 000 (2005 est)
- bwana — (in E Africa) a master, often used as a respectful form of address corresponding to sir
- cowan — a person who makes dry-stone walls
- dewan — (formerly in India) the chief minister or finance minister of a state ruled by an Indian prince
- diwan — (in India) any of certain officials, as a financial minister or prime minister of a native colony.
6 letter words containing wan
7 letter words containing wan
- ellwand — a stick for measuring lengths
- fanwank — (fandom slang, derogatory) Explanations invented by fans (of a television series etc.) to gloss over mistakes in continuity.
- kewanee — a city in NW Illinois.
- kiwanis — an organization founded in 1915 for the promulgation of higher ideals in business, industrial, and professional life.
- kwangju — a city in SW South Korea.
8 letter words containing wan
- avowance — (obsolete) Act of avowing; avowal.
- awanting — missing or in want of
- bakwanga — former name of Mbuji-Mayi.
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- 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.
9 letter words containing wan
- allowance — An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
- burrawang — any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut
- 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.
- forwander — to wander far
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
10 letter words containing wan
- allowanced — Simple past tense and past participle of allowance.
- allowances — Plural form of allowance.
- angwantibo — a rare gold-coloured prosimian primate of tropical Africa, Arctocebus calabarensis, having digits that are specialized as a pair of pincers for climbing: family Lorisidae (lorises)
- chwang-tse — Chuang-tzu (def 1).
- lackawanna — a city in W New York, on Lake Erie, near Buffalo.
11 letter words containing wan
- allowancing — Present participle of allowance.
- chinwangtao — Qinhuangdao
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- kawanatanga — governing; governorship
12 letter words containing wan
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- gondwanaland — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
- guangzhouwan — a former French-leased territory (1898–1945) on the SW coast of Guangdong province, in S China. About 190 sq. mi. (490 sq. km).
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
13 letter words containing wan
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
14 letter words containing wan
- bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
15 letter words containing wan
- saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
16 letter words containing wan
- völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
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