8-letter words containing g, w
- grow out — hairstyle: allow to lengthen
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- growlers — Plural form of growler.
- growlery — a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured
- growling — Producing a growl.
- grown-up — having reached the age of maturity.
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- 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.
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- gulfweed — a coarse, olive-brown, branching seaweed, Sargassum bacciferum, common in the Gulf Stream and tropical American seas, characterized by numerous berrylike air vessels.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- gun down — shoot dead
- gun laws — laws relating to the possession and use of guns
- gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
- gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
- gunwoman — A female gunman.
- gunwomen — Plural form of gunwoman.
- gurdwara — a Sikh temple in India.
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- gwich'in — a member of a North American Indian people from northwest Canada and northeast Alaska
- gwinnett — Button, 1735?–77, American Revolutionary leader, born in England.
- gwyniads — Plural form of gwyniad.
- hangchow — Older Spelling. Hangzhou.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- high-low — a game of poker in which both high and low hands are eligible to win, the pot usually being split equally between the player with the highest hand and the player with the lowest hand.
- highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
- highwall — the unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
- highways — Plural form of highway.
- hindwing — a rear wing on a four-winged insect
- hog wild — highly excited; without moderation or restraint
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- hog-wild — wildly or intemperately enthusiastic or excited.
- hoosegow — a jail.
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- hwang ho — Older Spelling. Huang He.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- inswings — Plural form of inswing.
- jigsawed — Simple past tense and past participle of jigsaw.
- jug wine — any inexpensive wine sold in large bottles, especially a bottle containing 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts) or more.
- kakogawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan.
- kangwane — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in South Africa; abolished in 1994. Capital: Schoemansdal
- kingchow — former name of Jiangling.
- kingwana — a language of the Democratic Republic of Congo in W Africa, closely related to Swahili and used as a lingua franca
- kingwood — a Brazilian wood streaked with violet tints, used especially in cabinetwork.
- knowledg — Obsolete form of knowledge.