8-letter words containing w, a, g
- gasworks — a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.
- gateways — Plural form of gateway.
- gawkiest — Superlative form of gawky.
- gaywings — fringed polygala.
- get away — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- getaways — Plural form of getaway.
- gewgawed — something gaudy and useless; trinket; bauble.
- giftware — china, crystal, or other items suitable for gifts.
- giftwrap — to wrap (something), as a package, with decorative paper, ribbon, etc., for presentation as a gift.
- gigawatt — one billion watts. Abbreviation: GW, Gw.
- give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- giveaway — an act or instance of giving something away.
- gladwrap — a thin polythene material that clings closely to any surface around which it is placed: used for wrapping food
- glowlamp — An aphlogistic lamp.
- gnatwren — a small bird of the gnatcatcher family
- gnawable — Capable of being gnawed.
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- goatweed — a plant of the genus Capraria
- godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- gondwana — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
- goshawks — Plural form of goshawk.
- gottwald — Klement [kle-ment] /ˈklɛ mɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, Czech Communist leader: prime minister 1946–48; president 1948–53.
- gownsman — a person who wears a gown indicating office, profession, or status.
- greenway — any scenic trail or route set aside for travel or recreational activities.
- grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
- guffawed — a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
- guideway — a structure, usually made of concrete, that is used to support and guide trains or individual vehicles that ride over it.
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- gun laws — laws relating to the possession and use of guns
- gunwales — Plural form of gunwale.
- gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
- gunwoman — A female gunman.
- gurdwara — a Sikh temple in India.
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- gwyniads — Plural form of gwyniad.
- hangchow — Older Spelling. Hangzhou.
- hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
- highwall — the unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
- highways — Plural form of highway.
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- hwang ho — Older Spelling. Huang He.
- jigsawed — Simple past tense and past participle of jigsaw.
- kakogawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan.
- kangwane — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in South Africa; abolished in 1994. Capital: Schoemansdal
- kingwana — a language of the Democratic Republic of Congo in W Africa, closely related to Swahili and used as a lingua franca
- kwantung — Older Spelling. Guandong.
- kweiyang — Guiyang.