8-letter words containing a, n, d, w, h
- and how! — very much so!
- bow hand — the hand that holds the bow in archery or in playing a violin, cello, etc.
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- downwash — a deflection of air downward relative to an airfoil that causes the deflection.
- handsaws — Plural form of handsaw.
- handsewn — sewn by hand.
- handwash — If you handwash something, you wash it by hand rather than in a washing machine.
- handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
- hindward — backward
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- law-hand — a style of handwriting used in old legal documents, especially in England.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- unshadow — to remove a shadow from
- unthawed — not thawed; still frozen
- unwashed — not cleaned or purified by or as if by washing: unwashed dishes; the unwashed soul of a sinner.
- waldhorn — an organ reed stop
- washdown — the act or process of washing down, as in cleaning something completely.
- washland — a periodically flooded plain
- whinyard — a sword
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