8-letter words containing w, a, g, e
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- tasswage — to assuage
- tea gown — a semiformal gown of fine material, especially one styled with soft, flowing lines, worn for afternoon social occasions.
- 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
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- wageless — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
- wagering — Present participle of wager.
- waggoner — Alternative spelling of wagoner.
- wagonage — transportation or conveyance by wagon.
- wagoneer — One who drives a wagon.
- wakening — awakening.
- war game — a simulated military operation, carried out to test the validity of a war plan or operational concept: in its simplest form, two opposing teams of officers take part, and when necessary, military units of the required strength are employed.
- wargames — (recreation) (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.
- wastages — Plural form of wastage.
- 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.
- waukegan — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan, N of Chicago.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- wayleggo — away here! let go!; a shepherd's call to a dog on completion of a task
- weakling — a person who is physically or morally weak.
- weanling — a child or animal newly weaned.
- wearying — Causing tiredness; tiring.
- weavings — Plural form of weaving.
- web page — a single, usually hypertext document on the World Wide Web that can incorporate text, graphics, sounds, etc.
- webpages — Plural form of webpage.
- weigelas — Plural form of weigela.
- weighage — a duty paid for weighing goods
- weighman — a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.
- whangees — Plural form of whangee.
- wharfage — the use of a wharf: to charge higher rates for wharfage.
- whompage — (rare humorous slang) Whomping or whomping on; acts of whomping or whomping on, taken collectively.
- wigmaker — a person who makes or sells wigs.
- windages — Plural form of windage.
- wingbeat — One complete set of motions of a wing in flying.
- wingmate — Alternative form of wingman.
- wordages — Plural form of wordage.
- wrangell — Mount, an active volcano in SE Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. 14,006 feet (4269 meters).
- wrangled — to argue or dispute, especially in a noisy or angry manner.
- wrangler — a cowboy, especially one in charge of saddle horses.
- wrangles — Plural form of wrangle.
- wrappage — The act of wrapping.
- wreaking — to inflict or execute (punishment, vengeance, etc.): They wreaked havoc on the enemy.
- wreckage — act of wrecking; state of being wrecked.