8-letter words containing w, a, d
- 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.
- wizardry — the art, skill, or accomplishments of a wizard.
- wladimir — Vladimir.
- wood ant — a reddish-brown European ant, Formica rufa, typically living in anthills in woodlands
- wood ear — tree ear
- wood rat — pack rat (def 1).
- wood ray — xylem ray.
- wood tar — a dark viscid product obtained from wood by distillation or by slow burning without flame, used in its natural state to preserve timber, rope, etc., or subjected to further distillation to yield creosote, oils, and a final residuum, wood pitch.
- woodchat — Also, woodchat shrike. a shrike, Lanius senator, of Europe and northern Africa, having a black forehead and a chestnut crown, nape, and mantle.
- woodland — a city in N central California.
- woodlark — a small, European songbird, Lullula arborea, noted for its song in flight.
- woodmeal — a type of flour, resembling sawdust, made from the root of the cassava plant
- woodsman — Also, woodman. a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.
- woodward — C(omer) Vann, 1908–99, U.S. historian.
- woodwasp — Any of various unrelated insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.
- woodyard — A yard where wood is chopped or stored.
- woolward — with the woollen side touching the skin
- word-art — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- wordages — Plural form of wordage.
- wordmark — (marketing) A logotype; a standardized graphic representation of the name of a company or product used for purposes of easy identification. It is is often text with unique typographic treatments. Usually the company name is incorporated together with simple graphic treatments, so that the representation of the word essentially becomes a symbol of the company.
- wordplay — clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit.
- workaday — of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.
- workload — the amount of work that a machine, employee, or group of employees can be or is expected to perform.
- wrangled — to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
- wrassled — Simple past tense and past participle of wrassle.
- wreathed — a circular band of flowers, foliage, or any ornamental work, for adorning the head or for any decorative purpose; a garland or chaplet.
- yardwork — (North America) Work done in maintaining a lawn, and related landscaping activities.
- zamzawed — (of tea) having been left in the pot to stew