8-letter words containing h, a, n, w
- and how! — very much so!
- anywhere — You use anywhere in statements with negative meaning to indicate that a place does not exist.
- bow hand — the hand that holds the bow in archery or in playing a violin, cello, etc.
- chainsaw — a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- chin-wag — to engage in informal or idle conversation; chat or gossip
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- downwash — a deflection of air downward relative to an airfoil that causes the deflection.
- enswathe — Envelop or wrap in a garment or piece of fabric.
- enwreath — Misspelling of enwreathe.
- fernshaw — a thicket of ferns
- gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
- handsaws — Plural form of handsaw.
- handsewn — sewn by hand.
- handwash — If you handwash something, you wash it by hand rather than in a washing machine.
- 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.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hangchow — Older Spelling. Hangzhou.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- hawaiian — of or relating to Hawaii or the Hawaiian Islands.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
- hawthorn — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family, typically a small tree with stiff thorns, certain North American species of which have white or pink blossoms and bright-colored fruits and are cultivated in hedges.
- headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
- hen hawk — chicken hawk (def 1).
- hernshaw — a heron.
- hindward — backward
- huntaway — a sheep dog.
- hwang ho — Older Spelling. Huang He.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- law-hand — a style of handwriting used in old legal documents, especially in England.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- narwhals — Plural form of narwhal.
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- newhaven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- newshawk — a newspaper reporter, especially one who is energetic and aggressive.
- now that — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- shawnees — a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
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