8-letter words containing w, a, d, i
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- side-way — a byway.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewall — the part of a pneumatic tire between the edge of the tread and the rim of the wheel.
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- swadeshi — a political movement in British India that encouraged domestic production and the boycott of foreign, especially British, goods as a step toward home rule.
- swanndri — an all-weather heavy woollen shirt
- tailwind — a wind coming from directly behind a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to headwind).
- tidewave — the swell of the earth's water levels as the tide moves
- tightwad — a close-fisted or stingy person.
- unwaived — to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- viewdata — an interactive videotex service provided over a telephone line or television cable.
- waddling — Present participle of waddle.
- waitered — a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waivered — Allowed by waiver; permitted by exception granted from otherwise applicable rules.
- waldheim — Kurt [kurt;; German koo rt] /kɜrt;; German kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1918–2007, Austrian diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations 1972–82; president of Austria 1986–92.
- waldwick — a city in N New Jersey.
- wanweird — (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Misfortune; ill or unhappy fate.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- warfield — David, 1866–1951, U.S. actor.
- waysides — Plural form of wayside.
- weakside — the side of the court away from the ball
- whinyard — a sword
- wideband — Describing a communications transmission rate between that of narrowband and broadband.
- widowman — a widower
- wild man — a person who is uncivilized; a savage.
- wild oat — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wild yam — any of several uncultivated yams, especially Dioscorea villosa, of the U.S., having a woody, tuberous root.
- wildcard — (computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
- wildcats — Plural form of wildcat.
- wildland — land that has not been cultivated, especially land set aside and protected as a wilderness.
- willyard — obstinate; willful.
- wind gap — a cut that indents only the upper part of a mountain ridge, usually a former water gap.
- windable — that can be wound.
- windages — Plural form of windage.
- windbags — Plural form of windbag.
- windfall — an unexpected gain, piece of good fortune, or the like.
- windfarm — a large grouping of wind generators or wind plants located at a site having dependable strong winds.
- windflaw — flaw2 (def 1).
- windgall — a puffy distention of the synovial bursa at the fetlock joint.
- windlass — a device for raising or hauling objects, usually consisting of a horizontal cylinder or barrel turned by a crank, lever, motor, or the like, upon which a cable, rope, or chain winds, the outer end of the cable being attached directly or indirectly to the weight to be raised or the thing to be hauled or pulled; winch.
- windsail — a sail rigged over a hatchway, ventilator, or the like, to divert moving air downward into the vessel.
- windward — toward the wind; toward the point from which the wind blows.
- wing dam — a jetty for diverting the current of a stream.
- wiredraw — to draw (metal) out into wire, especially by pulling forcibly through a series of holes of gradually decreasing diameter in a succession of dies.
- withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- wizardly — of, like, or befitting a wizard.