8-letter words containing t, g, w
- tasswage — to assuage
- tea gown — a semiformal gown of fine material, especially one styled with soft, flowing lines, worn for afternoon social occasions.
- thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
- throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
- tightwad — a close-fisted or stingy person.
- tokugawa — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603–1867.
- toweling — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
- towering — very high or tall; lofty: a towering oak.
- town gas — coal gas manufactured for domestic and industrial use
- townling — a person who lives in a town
- trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
- tungchow — Tongzhou.
- twanging — to give out a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument when plucked.
- twangler — a person who twangles
- tweaking — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- tweenage — (of a child) between about eight and fourteen years old
- tweeting — a weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.
- twerking — a provocative dance performed by moving the hips rapidly back and forth while standing with the feet apart and raising and lowering the body in a squatting motion
- twigless — having no twigs
- twigsome — covered with twigs
- twilight — the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall.
- twinight — (of a baseball double-header) held in the late afternoon and evening
- twinning — either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.
- twirling — to cause to rotate rapidly; spin; revolve; whirl.
- twisting — a deviation in direction; curve; bend; turn.
- twitting — to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at. Synonyms: jeer at, mock, insult, deride.
- twoccing — the act of breaking into a motor vehicle and driving it away
- unweight — Skiing. to lessen downward force and friction between the skis and the snow by a quick upward or downward shifting of the body or by using bumps in the terrain.
- upgrowth — the process of growing up; development: the upgrowth of nuclear science.
- wagtails — Plural form of wagtail.
- waisting — That which goes at the waist (of a person, as on a garment, or of an object).
- waltzing — Present participle of waltz.
- wart hog — wild boar with tusks
- wartburg — a castle in E Germany, in Thuringia, near Eisenach: Luther translated the New Testament here 1521–22.
- warthogs — Plural form of warthog.
- wastages — Plural form of wastage.
- wastings — Plural form of wasting.
- watchdog — a dog kept to guard property.
- watching — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- waterage — the transportation of cargo by means of ships, or the charges for such transportation
- waterdog — any of several large salamanders, as a mudpuppy or hellbender.
- watering — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- waterlog — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- wattling — An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle.
- wegotism — (colloquial, dated) Excessive use of the pronoun 'we'.
- weighted — having additional weight.
- weighter — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- westings — Plural form of westing.
- westling — (obsolete) A westerner.
- westwego — a town in SE Louisiana.