8-letter words containing i, w
- boweling — Anatomy. Usually, bowels. the intestine. a part of the intestine.
- bowenite — a compact and dense variety of green serpentine resembling jade.
- bowingly — in a curved manner
- bowllike — resembling a bowl; bowl-shaped
- bowrider — a motorboat with an open bow provided with seating.
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- brainbow — the result of a process by which the individual neurons of a brain can be mapped with fluorescent proteins under a light source
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- browning — a substance used to darken soups, gravies, etc
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chainsaw — a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain
- chewiest — Superlative form of chewy.
- chichewa — the language of the Chewa people of central Africa, widely used as a lingua franca in Malawi. It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
- chigwell — a town in S England, in W Essex. Pop: 10 128 (2001)
- chin-wag — to engage in informal or idle conversation; chat or gossip
- chinchow — Jinzhou
- chindwin — a river in N Myanmar, rising in the Kumôn Range and flowing northwest then south to the Irrawaddy, of which it is the main tributary. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- chlodwig — German name of Clovis I.
- chowline — A line of people waiting for food.
- chowtime — the time for eating a meal
- ciswoman — (LGBT) A cisgender woman, a woman who is biologically female.
- cityward — towards a city
- citywide — Citywide activities or situations happen or exist in all parts of a city.
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- clerihew — a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person
- clowning — clownish behaviour
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- combwise — in the manner of a comb
- cordwain — cordovan leather
- corkwing — a greenish or bluish European fish of the wrasse family, Ctenolabrus melops
- cow lily — spatterdock.
- cow-tail — a coarse wool of poor quality.
- cowbirds — Plural form of cowbird.
- cowering — to crouch, as in fear or shame.
- cowgirls — Plural form of cowgirl.
- cowhides — Plural form of cowhide.
- cowinner — one of a number of winners
- cowlicks — Plural form of cowlick.
- cowlings — Plural form of cowling.
- cowriter — a writer who works in collaboration with another writer
- cowslips — Plural form of cowslip.
- coxswain — The coxswain of a lifeboat or other small boat is the person who steers the boat.
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.