Awl or AWL may also refer to:
- AA-4 'Awl', the NATO reporting name for the Raduga K-9 air-to-air missile
- Absence Without Leave
- Academic word list
- Aircraft Warning Light
- Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a Trotskyist group in Britain
- Arizona Winter League
- Awl butterflies, the genus Hasora and some other members of the skipper butterfly subfamily Coeliadinae
- Awl-flies, the true fly family Xylophagidae
- The Awl, a current events and culture website
- Anweisungsliste (a.k.a. Statement List), instruction list programming language for Siemens SIMATIC S7