5-letter words containing w
- awwed — Simple past tense and past participle of aww.
- b & w — (of a motion picture, photograph, drawing, etc.) black and white, as distinguished from color.
- batwa — Twa.
- bawds — a woman who maintains a brothel; madam.
- bawdy — A bawdy story or joke contains humorous references to sex.
- bawls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bawl.
- bawns — Plural form of bawn.
- bedew — to wet or cover with or as if with drops of dew
- below — If something is below something else, it is in a lower position.
- bewet — to make wet
- bewig — to cover with a wig
- blown — Blown is the past participle of blow1.
- blowy — windy
- bmews — Ballistic Missile Early Warning System.
- bowat — a small lamp or lantern
- bowed — Something that is bowed is curved.
- bowel — Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
- bowen — Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole). 1899–1973, British novelist and short-story writer, born in Ireland. Her novels include The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949)
- bower — A bower is a shady, leafy shelter in a garden or wood.
- bowie — David, real name David Jones. 1947–2016, British rock singer, songwriter, and film actor. His recordings include "Space Oddity" (1969), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Young Americans (1975), Heroes (1977), Let's Dance (1983), The Next Day (2013), and Blackstar (2016)
- bowls — a game played on a bowling green in which a small bowl (the jack) is pitched from a mark and two opponents or opposing teams take turns to roll biased wooden bowls towards it, the object being to finish as near the jack as possible
- bowse — to haul with tackle.
- brawl — A brawl is a rough or violent fight.
- brawn — Brawn is physical strength.
- braws — fine apparel
- brown — Something that is brown is the colour of earth or of wood.
- bulow — Prince Bernhard von (ˈbɛrnhart fɔn). 1849–1929, chancellor of Germany (1900–09)
- bwana — (in E Africa) a master, often used as a respectful form of address corresponding to sir
- bylaw — A bylaw is a law which is made by a local authority and which applies only in their area.
- byway — A byway is a small road which is not used by many cars or people.
- c & w — country-and-western.
- cahow — a rare nocturnal Atlantic seabird, Pterodroma cahow, with brown and white plumage, formerly thought to be extinct
- carew — Thomas. ?1595–?1639, English Cavalier poet
- cawed — Simple past tense and past participle of caw.
- cd-rw — A CD-RW is a CD which is capable of recording sound and images, for example from another CD or from the Internet. CD-RW is an abbreviation for 'compact disc rewritable'.
- chawk — a jackdaw
- chawl — A type of building found in India. Often having 4 to 5 stories with about 10 to 20 tenements, they are also known as kholis.
- chaws — Plural form of chaw.
- chewa — a member of a Negroid people of Malawi, E Zambia, and N Zimbabwe, related to the Bemba
- chews — Plural form of chew.
- chewy — If food is chewy, it needs to be chewed a lot before it becomes soft enough to swallow.
- chowk — a marketplace or market area
- chows — Plural form of chow.
- claws — Plural form of claw.
- clews — Plural form of clew.
- clown — A clown is a performer in a circus who wears funny clothes and bright make-up, and does silly things in order to make people laugh.
- clwyd — a former county in NE Wales, formed in 1974 from Flintshire, most of Denbighshire, and part of Merionethshire; replaced in 1996 by Flintshire, Denbighshire, Wrexham county borough, and part of Conwy county borough
- cmiiw — correct me if I'm wrong
- conwy — a market town and resort in N Wales, in Conwy county borough on the estuary of the River Conwy: medieval town walls, 13th-century castle. Pop: 3847 (2001)
- coown — To own jointly with another person or organization.