8-letter words containing w, a, i, g
- swashing — Printing. noting or pertaining to a character having a swash: a swash letter.
- swathing — to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.
- swatting — to hit; slap; smack.
- sweating — the act or process of sweating
- swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
- swingman — a player who can play either of two positions, usually guard and forward.
- thrawing — British Dialect. to throw.
- tightwad — a close-fisted or stingy person.
- trawling — fishing using a trawl net or trawl line
- twanging — to give out a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument when plucked.
- tweaking — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- 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.
- wagering — Present participle of wager.
- waggling — Present participle of waggle.
- 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.
- 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)
- wangling — Present participle of wangle.
- wannigan — a lumberjack's trunk.
- warbling — to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.
- warnings — Plural form of warning.
- warrigal — dingo.
- washings — the act of a person or thing that washes; ablution.
- wastings — Plural form of wasting.
- 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.
- 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.
- wattling — An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle.
- waulking — Present participle of waulk.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- waxwings — Plural form of waxwing.
- waygoing — the act of leaving; departure; leavetaking.
- 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.
- weigelas — Plural form of weigela.
- weighage — a duty paid for weighing goods
- weighman — a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.
- whacking — large.
- whanging — a resounding blow.
- whapping — whopping.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.
- whizbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.