8-letter words containing l, w
- game law — a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.
- gamefowl — A gamebird.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- gas laws — ideal gas law.
- gas well — a well from which natural gas is obtained.
- get well — conveying wishes for one's recovery, as from an illness: a get-well card.
- get-well — conveying wishes for one's recovery, as from an illness: a get-well card.
- giltwood — made of wood and gilded
- gladwrap — a thin polythene material that clings closely to any surface around which it is placed: used for wrapping food
- gleiwitz — German name of Gliwice.
- glenview — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- glenwood — a town in SW Iowa.
- glowered — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- glowlamp — An aphlogistic lamp.
- glowworm — the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
- gluhwein — mulled wine
- gnawable — Capable of being gnawed.
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- goldwork — work produced by a goldsmith.
- golliwog — a grotesque black doll.
- gollywog — Alternative form of golliwog.
- goodwill — friendly disposition; benevolence; kindness.
- gottwald — Klement [kle-ment] /ˈklɛ mɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, Czech Communist leader: prime minister 1946–48; president 1948–53.
- grey owl — Grey Owl, original name Archibald Belaney (1888–1938). Canadian writer and conservationist, born in England; adopted Native American identity
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- gromwell — any of various often hairy plants of the genus Lithospermum, of the borage family, usually bearing white or yellowish flowers and smooth, white, stony nutlets.
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- growlers — Plural form of growler.
- growlery — a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured
- growling — Producing a growl.
- 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 laws — laws relating to the possession and use of guns
- gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
- gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
- hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
- half-raw — (of meat) only partially cooked
- half-wit — a person who is feeble-minded.
- halfwits — Plural form of halfwit.
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
- hallways — Plural form of hallway.
- hardwall — a type of gypsum plaster used as a basecoat.
- hawk owl — a gray and white diurnal owl, Surnia ulula, of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, resembling a hawk in appearance and actions.
- hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
- hawkbill — hawksbill turtle.
- hawklike — any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- headwall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.