4-Letter Words Containing: _AW

• diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail

• an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations

• a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar

• sell or offer for sale from place to place

• hunt with hawks

• clear mucus or food from one's throat

• the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth

• the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth

• holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• talk incessantly and tiresomely

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

• censure severely or angrily

• make a raucous noise

• complain whiningly

• an awkward stupid person

• look with amazement; look stupidly

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• chew without swallowing

• United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)

• United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)

• United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919)

• British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)

• an imperfection in an object or machine

• defect or weakness in a person's character

• an imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness

• add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective

• the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

• warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt

• a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile

• become or cause to become soft or liquid

• an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom

• utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired

• be wide open