8-letter words containing g, w
- kotowing — Present participle of kotow.
- kwantung — Older Spelling. Guandong.
- kweiyang — Guiyang.
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- leftwing — Alternative spelling of left-wing.
- leg work — work or research involving extensive walking or traveling about, usually away from one's office, as in gathering data for a book, a legal action, etc.
- leg-work — work or research involving extensive walking or traveling about, usually away from one's office, as in gathering data for a book, a legal action, etc.
- lilongwe — Formerly Nyasaland. a republic in SE Africa, on the W and S shores of Lake Malawi: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence July 6, 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 49,177 sq. mi. (127,368 sq. km). Capital: Lilongwe.
- lobbygow — an errand boy, as formerly in the Chinatown section of a city.
- log-wood — a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a felled tree.
- logwoods — Plural form of logwood.
- longbows — Plural form of longbow.
- longview — a city in NE Texas.
- longwall — noting or pertaining to a means of extracting coal or other minerals in an underground mine from a continuous face, the roof before the face being supported at intervals by temporary or movable artificial supports. Compare room-and-pillar.
- longwave — (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
- longways — longwise.
- longwise — lengthwise
- longwood — a city in central Florida.
- longword — (computing) A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (specific number of bits depends upon architecture).
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- lowering — comparative of low1 .
- lowlight — A particularly disappointing or dull event or feature.
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- megawatt — a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW.
- moonglow — Moonlight.
- morwongs — Plural form of morwong.
- mugwumps — Plural form of mugwump.
- new ager — a believer in New Age
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- news peg — a news story that forms the basis of or justification for a feature story, editorial, political cartoon, or the like.
- newsgirl — a girl who sells or delivers newspapers.
- neyagawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- nightowl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nimwegen — German name of Nijmegen.
- nosewing — the flared portion of each side of the nose; a nasal ala.
- nymwegen — Nijmegen.
- on wings — flying or as if flying
- outgrown — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- outgrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgrow.
- outswing — (cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.
- outswung — made to curve outwards
- outweigh — to exceed in value, importance, influence, etc.: The advantages of the plan outweighed its defects.
- overgrow — to grow over; cover with a growth of something.
- overwing — to fly above
- owen gun — a type of simple recoil-operated 9 mm sub-machine-gun first used by Australian forces in World War II
- owing to — because of or on account of