8-letter words containing i, w
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- cribwork — a supporting framework of beams, logs, etc. built in layers, each layer having its unit at right angles to those of the layer below
- crow jim — reverse racism; racism by Black people against White people
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowd in — If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape.
- crowding — a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.
- crowning — the stage of labour when the infant's head is passing through the vaginal opening
- dawdling — proceeding at a slow pace
- dawnings — Plural form of dawning.
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.
- desqview — A system from Quarterdeck Office Systems implementing multitasking under MS-DOS.
- dew line — distant early warning line, a network of radar stations situated mainly in Arctic regions to give early warning of aircraft or missile attack on North America
- dewikify — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.
- dewiness — The state or quality of being dewy.
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- die away — If a sound dies away, it gradually becomes weaker or fainter and finally disappears completely.
- die down — If something dies down, it becomes very much quieter or less intense.
- dillweed — the leaves of the dill plant, especially when used dried and as a food flavoring.
- diredawa — a city in E Ethiopia.
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disavows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disavow.
- disbowel — (rare) To disembowel.
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- disendow — to deprive (a church, school, etc.) of endowment.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- disowned — Simple past tense and past participle of disown.
- dowdiest — Superlative form of dowdy.
- dowdyish — Like a dowdy; frumpy.
- dowdyism — the quality of being dowdy
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- downhill — down the slope of a hill; downward.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downlike — having the quality or characteristics of feathers or down
- downline — Alternative spelling of down line.
- downlink — a transmission path for data or other signals from a communications satellite or airborne platform to an earth station.
- downpipe — downspout.
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downspin — spin (def 19).
- downtick — a decline or deterioration in business activity, in mood, etc.
- downtime — a time during a regular working period when an employee is not actively productive.
- downwind — in the direction toward which the wind is blowing: We coasted downwind.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- driftway — A common road or path for driving cattle.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.