8-letter words containing w, a, n, g
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- weighman — a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.
- whacking — large.
- whangees — Plural form of whangee.
- 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.
- wightman — Hazel Hotchkiss, 1886–1974, U.S. tennis player.
- wind gap — a cut that indents only the upper part of a mountain ridge, usually a former water gap.
- windages — Plural form of windage.
- windbags — Plural form of windbag.
- windgall — a puffy distention of the synovial bursa at the fetlock joint.
- wing bar — a line of contrasting color along the coverts of a bird's wing.
- wing dam — a jetty for diverting the current of a stream.
- wingback — an offensive back who lines up outside an end.
- wingbeat — One complete set of motions of a wing in flying.
- wingmate — Alternative form of wingman.
- wingspan — the distance between the wing tips of an airplane.
- wolfgang — a male given name.
- wracking — Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
- 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.
- wrapping — something to be wrapped about the person, especially in addition to the usual indoor clothing, as a shawl, scarf, or sweater: an evening wrap.
- wreaking — to inflict or execute (punishment, vengeance, etc.): They wreaked havoc on the enemy.
- zangwill — Israel, 1865–1926, English novelist and playwright.
- zugzwang — a situation in which a player is limited to moves that cost pieces or have a damaging positional effect.