8-letter words containing c, w
- webspace — (computing, Internet) Disk space used to store webpages and other content that can be accessed through the Web.
- wedlocks — Plural form of wedlock.
- weichsel — a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1050 km) long.
- welching — welsh.
- welchman — Welshman.
- welcomed — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomer — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomes — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- wellcurb — a stone surround at the top of a well
- wenching — a country lass or working girl: The milkmaid was a healthy wench.
- wet cell — a cell whose electrolyte is in liquid form and free to flow.
- wet dock — a dock accessible only around the time of high tide and entered through locks or gates.
- wet pack — a type of bath in which wet sheets are applied to the patient.
- wetbacks — Plural form of wetback; a slur towards persons of Mexican descent in the United States.
- whacking — large.
- whackjob — (colloquial, pejorative) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.
- wheelock — Eleazar, 1711–79, U.S. clergyman and educator: founded Dartmouth College.
- wheyface — a face that or a person who is pallid, as from fear.
- whichway — every (def 6).
- whinchat — a small Old World thrush, Saxicola rubetra, having a buff-colored breast and white streaks in the tail.
- whipcord — a cotton, woolen, or worsted fabric with a steep, diagonally ribbed surface.
- whipjack — a beggar imitating a distressed sailor
- whitecap — a wave with a broken and foaming white crest.
- whitecup — a creeping South American plant, Nierembergia repens, of the nightshade family, having bell-shaped, lilac- or blue-tinged, cream-white flowers.
- whitrack — a weasel; ermine or stoat.
- wick bay — an inlet of the North Sea in N Scotland
- wickeder — evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- wickedly — evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- wickiups — Plural form of wickiup.
- wickless — a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.
- wildcard — (computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
- wildcats — Plural form of wildcat.
- win back — retrieve, recover
- winchell — Walter, 1897–1972, U.S. newspaper columnist and radio and television broadcaster.
- winching — Present participle of winch.
- winchman — a man who operates a winch
- windsock — a tapered, tubular cloth vane, open at both ends and having at the larger end a fixed ring pivoted to swing freely, installed at airports or elsewhere to indicate wind direction and approximate intensity.
- wingback — an offensive back who lines up outside an end.
- wiseacre — a person who possesses or affects to possess great wisdom.
- witchery — witchcraft; magic.
- witching — a person, now especially a woman, who professes or is supposed to practice magic or sorcery; a sorceress. Compare warlock.
- wolf cub — a member of the junior division, for boys from 8 to 11, of the Boy Scouts; cub scout.
- wolfpack — A family or other group of wild wolves.
- woodchat — Also, woodchat shrike. a shrike, Lanius senator, of Europe and northern Africa, having a black forehead and a chestnut crown, nape, and mantle.
- woodchip — a small chip of wood, especially one that flakes off when felling a tree or splitting a log.
- woodchop — To chop wood, especially as a sport.
- woodcock — either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor.
- woodcuts — Plural form of woodcut.
- woodlice — Plural form of woodlouse.
- woolpack — a coarse fabric, usually of jute, in which raw wool is packed for transport.