4-letter words containing w
- jaws — a swelling wave of water; billow.
- jawy — (obsolete) Relating to the jaws.
- jews — one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite.
- jowl — a fold of flesh hanging from the jaw, as of a very fat person.
- jows — the ringing, tolling, or sound of a bell.
- kawa — Alternative form of kava.
- kewl — (Internet slang) alternative spelling of cool.
- kiwi — any of several flightless, ratite birds of the genus Apteryx, of New Zealand, allied to the extinct moas.
- knaw — Archaic spelling of gnaw.
- knew — simple past tense of know1 .
- know — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- kwhr — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- kwic — keyword in context
- kwik — Nonstandard spelling of quick.
- kwoc — key word out of context
- lacw — leading aircraftwoman
- lawe — Obsolete spelling of law.
- lawl — (Internet) alternative spelling of lol.
- lawn — wireless local area network
- laws — Plural form of law.
- lcsw — licensed clinical social worker
- lewd — inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious.
- lisw — licensed independent social worker
- loew — Marcus, 1870–1927, U.S. movie theater and studio executive.
- lowd — Obsolete form of loud.
- lowe — to burn; blaze.
- lowl — (language) The abstract machine for bootstrapping ML/1, developed by P.J. Brown of the University of Kent at Canterbury.
- lown — loon2 .
- lows — Plural form of low.
- lwei — a monetary unit of Angola, the 100th part of a kwanza.
- lwów — a city in W Ukraine: formerly in Poland.
- mawk — (obsolete except in dialects) a maggot.
- mawn — a measure of capacity, varying between regions and dependent upon the commodity measured
- maws — mother1 .
- meaw — Dated form of meow.
- meow — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- mewl — to cry, as a baby, young child, or the like; whimper.
- mews — a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
- mowe — to make mows, mouths, or grimaces.
- mown — a past participle of mow1 .
- mows — Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. to store (hay) in a barn.
- mwah — Making the sound of a kiss; the sound used to indicate sending a kiss through the air; Frequently used in email, chat and text messages to indicate sending a kiss to someone.
- nawk — New AWK. AT&T. Pattern scanning and processing language. An enhanced version of AWK, with dynamic regular expressions, additional built-ins and operators, and user-defined functions.
- new- — New- combines with the past participle of some verbs to form adjectives which indicate that an action has been done or completed very recently.
- newb — (Internet slang, leet, sometimes, pejorative) A newbie; someone that is new at a game, or has a new character.
- newe — Archaic spelling of new.
- newf — Newfie (def 1).
- newp — NEW Programming language
- news — netnews
- newt — any of several brilliantly colored salamanders of the family Salamandridae, especially those of the genera Triturus and Notophthalmus, of North America, Europe, and northern Asia.