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BWA

"BWA" is a common misspelling or typo for: bad, bawd, bawl, boa, bra, byway.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: BWA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
BWA	English	Republic of Botswana	Geography, Law
BWA	French	République du Botswana	Geography, Law
BWA	German	Republik Botsuana	Geography, Law
BWA	Italian	Repubblica del Botswana	Geography, Law
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Crosswords: BWA

Non-English Usage: "BWA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Welsh (arc, arch, bow).

Commercial Usage: BWA

Domain	Title
References	BWA Group Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Liloba Nzambe alobaki na biso o Bondeko bwa kala mpe o Bondeko bwa sika (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage in Company Names: BWA

Country	Name
United Kingdom	BWA Group Plc
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

Derivations: BWA

Derivations
	Words beginning with "BWA": bwana, bwanas. (additional references)
	Words containing "BWA": abwatt, abwatts, dumbwaiter, dumbwaiters, subway, subwayed, subwaying, subways. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: BWA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: wab.
	Words within the letters "a-b-w"
	-1 letter: ab, aw, ba.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-w"
	+1 letter: bawd, bawl, blaw, braw, swab, wabs.
	+2 letters: bawds, bawdy, bawls, bawty, blawn, blaws, brawl, brawn, braws, bwana, bylaw, byway, nawab, swabs.
	+3 letters: abwatt, bagwig, barlow, barrow, bashaw, bawbee, bawdry, bawled, bawler, bawtie, bewail, beware, bewrap, bewray, blawed, bowman, brawer, brawls, brawly, brawns, brawny, bushwa, bwanas, byelaw, bylaws, byways, nawabs, subway, swabby, wabble, wabbly, wamble, wambly, warble, wasabi, wombat.
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Alternative Orthography: BWA

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 57 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-... .--. .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010111 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#87 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0057 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

365735

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Names: Company Usage

5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams

9. Orthography
10. Bibliography

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