7-letter words containing a, w
- drawboy — an apparatus for controlling and manipulating the harness cords on a power loom.
- drawees — Plural form of drawee.
- drawers — a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- drawing — an act of drawing.
- drawled — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawler — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- dry law — a law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages.
- drywall — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- dubawnt — a river in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada, flowing NE to Baker Lake. 580 miles (933 km) long.
- dwarfed — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- dwarves — a plural of dwarf.
- eadwine — Edwin (def 1).
- earwigs — Plural form of earwig.
- earworm — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- earywig — (regional) earwig.
- edgeway — A form of railway in which the road is causewayed up to the level of the top of the flanges.
- edwards — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- eggwash — beaten egg, usually mixed with milk or water, for brushing on pastry
- ellwand — a stick for measuring lengths
- endways — With its end facing upward, forward, or toward the viewer.
- enwraps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enwrap.
- eyewash — Cleansing solution for a person’s eye.
- eyewear — Things worn on the eyes, such as spectacles and contact lenses.
- fairway — an unobstructed passage, way, or area.
- fallows — Plural form of fallow (uncultivated land).
- fallway — (US) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or factory or the decks of a ship, providing access for material, goods or people.
- falwell — Jerry L. 1933–2007, U.S. evangelist and political activist.
- fanwank — (fandom slang, derogatory) Explanations invented by fans (of a television series etc.) to gloss over mistakes in continuity.
- fanweed — the pennycress, Thlaspi arvense.
- fanwise — spread out like an open fan: to hold cards fanwise.
- fanwort — any aquatic plant belonging to the genus Cabomba, of the water lily family, having very small flowers and submerged and floating leaves.
- faraway — distant; remote: faraway lands.
- farrows — Plural form of farrow.
- fatware — (computing, informal) Bloatware.
- fatwood — kindling; lightwood.
- fawcett — Dame Millicent Garrett. 1847–1929, British suffragette
- fawning — a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- fawnish — Of a colour somewhat resembling fawn.
- fishway — A structure built on or around dams or locks to faciliate the migration of fish.
- flamfew — (Scotland, obsolete) A worthless thing; a trifle or bauble.
- flawing — Present participle of flaw.
- flowage — an act of flowing; flow.
- fly way — a route between breeding and wintering areas taken by concentrations of migrating birds.
- flyaway — fluttering or streaming in the wind; windblown: flyaway hair.
- flyways — Plural form of flyway.
- folkway — A custom or belief common to members of a society or culture.
- footway — a way or path for people going on foot.
- forepaw — the paw of a foreleg.
- foresaw — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.