8-letter words containing w, a, g
- tweenage — (of a child) between about eight and fourteen years old
- unwaning — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
- unwaving — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- waddling — Present participle of waddle.
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- waffling — to talk foolishly or without purpose; idle away time talking.
- 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.
- waggling — Present participle of waggle.
- waggoner — Alternative spelling of wagoner.
- wagonage — transportation or conveyance by wagon.
- wagoneer — One who drives a wagon.
- wagonful — a quantity of objects or people that will fill a wagon
- wagonway — A crude road for wagons.
- wagtails — Plural form of wagtail.
- wailings — Plural form of wailing.
- waisting — That which goes at the waist (of a person, as on a garment, or of an object).
- wakening — awakening.
- walburga — Walpurgis.
- waldglas — common medieval and Renaissance glassware, made from unrefined materials and characterized by a green color.
- waltzing — Present participle of waltz.
- wanganui — a port in New Zealand, on SW North Island: centre for a dairy-farming and sheep-rearing district. Pop: 43 600 (2004 est)
- wangchuk — Jigme Dorji [jig-mey dawr-jee] /ˈdʒɪg meɪ ˈdɔr dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1929–72, king of Bhutan 1952–72.
- wangling — Present participle of wangle.
- wannigan — a lumberjack's trunk.
- 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.
- warangal — a city in NE Telangana state, in S India.
- warbling — to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.
- 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.
- warnings — Plural form of warning.
- warragal — Alternative form of warrigal.
- warrigal — dingo.
- 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.
- wash-rag — A wash-rag is the same as a washcloth.
- washings — the act of a person or thing that washes; ablution.
- 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.
- waukegan — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan, N of Chicago.
- waulking — Present participle of waulk.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- waxwings — Plural form of waxwing.