5-letter words containing a, w
- mowra — mahua.
- narew — a river in NE Poland, flowing S and SW into the Bug River: battle 1915. 290 miles (465 km) long.
- nawab — Also, nabob. a viceroy or deputy governor under the former Mogul empire in India.
- newar — a member of a Mongoloid people of Nepal.
- noway — in no way, respect, or degree; not at all; nowise: He was noway responsible for the accident.
- nuaaw — National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers: a former trade union in the United Kingdom representing agricultural labourers, etc
- ofwat — Office of Water Services: a government body set up in 1989 to regulate the activities of the water companies in England and Wales, and to protect the interests of their consumers
- otway — Thomas, 1652–85, English dramatist.
- ozawa — Seiji [sey-jee] /ˈseɪ dʒi/ (Show IPA), born 1935, Japanese conductor in the U.S.
- papaw — pawpaw.
- pawed — the foot of an animal having claws.
- pawer — the foot of an animal having claws.
- pawky — cunning; sly.
- pilaw — pilaf.
- powan — a freshwater whitefish, Coregonus clupeoides, occurring in some Scottish lakes
- poway — a city in SW California.
- prawn — any of various shrimplike decapod crustaceans of the genera Palaemon, Penaeus, etc., certain of which are used as food.
- pshaw — an exclamation of “pshaw!”.
- rawer — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- rawin — a method of observation of upper-air winds conducted by means of a weather balloon tracked by radar or a radio direction finder.
- rawls — John, 1921–2002, U.S. political philosopher.
- rawly — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- resaw — to saw again.
- rewax — to wax again
- rowan — the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
- rukwa — Lake, a shallow salt lake in SW Tanzania. About 1000 sq. mi. (2600 sq. km).
- sanwu — South African National Workers Union
- sawah — an irrigated rice or paddy-field usually found in Indonesia or Malaysia
- sawed — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- sawer — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- schwa — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- scraw — a sod from the surface of a peat bog or from a field
- sewan — wampum (def 1).
- sewar — a dagger from Sumatra
- shawl — a square, triangular, or oblong piece of wool or other material worn, especially by women, about the shoulders, or the head and shoulders, in place of a coat or hat outdoors, and indoors as protection against chill or dampness.
- shawm — an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe.
- shawn — Ted (Edwin M) 1891–1972, U.S. dancer and choreographer (husband of Ruth St. Denis).
- showa — ("Showa") 1901–89, emperor of Japan 1926–89.
- shwas — the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
- sowar — an Indian cavalryman
- spawl — spittle
- spawn — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- squaw — Older Use: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a North American Indian woman, especially a wife.
- straw — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- swack — a hard blow
- swage — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
- swain — a male admirer or lover.
- swale — a low place in a tract of land, usually moister and often having ranker vegetation than the adjacent higher land.
- swalk — sealed with a loving kiss: sometimes written on the back of envelopes
- swami — an honorific title given to a Hindu religious teacher.