8-letter words containing aw
- pear haw — a shrub or small tree, Crataegus uniflora, of the eastern and southern coastal areas of the U.S., having pear-shaped, orange-red fruit.
- 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.
- pit-sawn — (of timber, esp formerly) sawn into planks by hand in a saw-pit
- poor law — a law or system of laws providing for the relief or support of the poor at public expense.
- pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- pre-draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- predrawn — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- 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.
- rack saw — a wide-toothed saw
- raw data — data
- raw deal — unjust treatment
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk
- raw mode — (operating system) A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Systems that make this distinction for a disk file are generally regarded as broken. Compare rare mode, cooked mode.
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- re-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- read law — to study to become a lawyer
- reawaken — rouse or arouse again
- redrawer — a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- ring taw — ringer1 (def 4).
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- rollaway — designed to be rolled out of the way or out of sight when not in use: rollaway bed.
- rot away — decay
- run away — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sash saw — a small tenon saw used for cutting sashes
- saw edge — the serrated edge of a saw
- saw wood — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- saw-wort — a perennial Old World plant, Serratula tinctoria, having serrated leaves that yield a yellow dye: family Asteraceae (composites)
- sawblade — the blade of a saw
- sawbones — a surgeon or physician.
- sawdusty — filled with or suggesting sawdust.
- sawgrass — any of various sedges of the genus Cladium, of tropical and temperate regions, having spiny, serrated leaves.
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- sawn-off — (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon
- sawshark — a shark with a long, flat, saw-like snout from the family Pristiophoridae and found in waters from South Africa to Australia and Japan
- sawtooth — one of the cutting teeth of a saw.
- sb awe32 — (multimedia, music, hardware) A standard SB16 MultiCD sound card with the EMU8000 "Advanced WavEffect" music synthesizer integrated circuit. The card includes all the standard SB16 features as well as the Advanced Signal Processor and multiple interfaces supporting Creative, Mitsumi and Sony CD-ROM drives. The EMU8000 comes integrated with 1MB of General MIDI samples and 512kB of DRAM for additional sample downloading. It can address up to 28 MB of external DRAM. The SB AWE32 supports General MIDI, Roland GS, and Sound Canvas MT-32 emulation.
- scalawag — a scamp; rascal.
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- scofflaw — a person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawler — a person who scrawls.