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8-letter words containing e, w, a

  • giftware — china, crystal, or other items suitable for gifts.
  • give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • giveaway — an act or instance of giving something away.
  • gnatwren — a small bird of the gnatcatcher family
  • gnawable — Capable of being gnawed.
  • goatweed — a plant of the genus Capraria
  • greenway — any scenic trail or route set aside for travel or recreational activities.
  • growable — able to be cultivated or grown
  • guffawed — a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
  • guideway — a structure, usually made of concrete, that is used to support and guide trains or individual vehicles that ride over it.
  • gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
  • gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
  • hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
  • hamewith — in a homewards manner
  • handsewn — sewn by hand.
  • 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.
  • hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
  • hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
  • harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
  • harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • harrower — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • hawaiite — (geology) An olivine basalt intermediate between alkali olivine and mugearite.
  • hawk-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
  • hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
  • hawklike — any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
  • hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
  • hawkweed — any composite plant of the genus Hieracium, usually bearing yellow flowers.
  • headwall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
  • headward — In the region or direction of the head.
  • headwear — coverings for the head, especially hats.
  • headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
  • headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
  • headwork — mental labor; thought.
  • heatwave — period of hot weather
  • hellward — towards hell
  • hen hawk — chicken hawk (def 1).
  • hereaway — hereabout.
  • hereward — called Hereward the Wake. 11th-century Anglo-Saxon rebel, who defended the Isle of Ely against William the Conqueror (1070–71): a subject of many legends
  • hernshaw — a heron.
  • hideaway — a place to which a person can retreat for safety, privacy, relaxation, or seclusion; refuge: His hideaway is in the mountains.
  • hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
  • hiwassee — a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.
  • hole saw — crown saw.
  • homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
  • homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
  • horseway — a bridleway
  • interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
  • inweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inweave.
  • ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
  • jawboned — Simple past tense and past participle of jawbone.
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