8-letter words containing a, n, d, w
- swordman — swordsman.
- tailwind — a wind coming from directly behind a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to headwind).
- takedown — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- townland — a division of land of various sizes
- unavowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- unclawed — not mauled, scratched, or otherwise damaged by claws
- underjaw — the lower jaw
- underway — occurring while under way: the underway activities on a cruise ship.
- unflawed — perfect
- unshadow — to remove a shadow from
- unswayed — swaybacked.
- unthawed — not thawed; still frozen
- untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
- unwaived — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- unwalked — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- unwalled — not surrounded by walls, not having or protected by walls
- unwanted — not desired or needed; not wanted: My absence generated some unwanted attention.
- unwarded — not warded or guarded; undefended
- unwarmed — not warmed; unheated
- unwarned — not warned or cautioned; without warning
- unwarped — not warped, as a phonograph record or flooring.
- unwashed — not cleaned or purified by or as if by washing: unwashed dishes; the unwashed soul of a sinner.
- unwasted — waste (defs 26–28).
- unweaned — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- waddling — Present participle of waddle.
- waldhorn — an organ reed stop
- walkdown — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
- wallenda — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1905–78, German circus aerialist.
- wallsend — a city in Tyne and Wear, NE England, near the mouth of the Tyne River.
- wandered — to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray: to wander over the earth.
- wanderer — a Covenanter persecuted by Charles II and James II, especially one who fled home to follow rebellious Presbyterian ministers who refused to accept episcopacy.
- wanderoo — any of several purple-faced langurs, of Sri Lanka.
- wandsman — verger (def 2).
- wantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of wanton.
- wanweird — (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Misfortune; ill or unhappy fate.
- wanwordy — without merit
- war bond — debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war
- wardcorn — a payment of corn in the feudal law system
- wardenry — the office, jurisdiction, or district of a warden.
- washdown — the act or process of washing down, as in cleaning something completely.
- washland — a periodically flooded plain
- waveband — band2 (def 9).
- weakened — to make weak or weaker.
- weaponed — Armed with a weapon.
- westland — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- wetlands — Plural form of wetland An area or region that is characteristically saturated; a marsh.
- whinyard — a sword
- wideband — Describing a communications transmission rate between that of narrowband and broadband.
- widowman — a widower