8-letter words containing w, a
- walkable — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
- walkaway — an easy victory or conquest.
- walkdown — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
- walkless — (baseball) Without a walk.
- walkouts — Plural form of walkout.
- walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- walkthru — (US) alternative spelling of walkthrough.
- walkways — Plural form of walkway.
- walkyrie — Valkyrie.
- wall box — an enclosed iron or steel socket built into a masonry wall to support the end of a wooden beam.
- wall off — If part of a place is walled off, it is separated from the rest of the place by a wall.
- wall rue — a small, delicate fern, Asplenium rutamuraria, having fan-shaped leaflets and growing on walls and cliffs.
- wallaroo — any of several large kangaroos of the genus Macropus (Osphranter), of the grassy plains of Australia, especially M. robustus, having a reddish-gray coat and inhabiting rocky hills.
- wallasey — a city in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary, opposite Liverpool.
- wallenda — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1905–78, German circus aerialist.
- walleyed — having eyes in which there is an abnormal amount of the white showing, because of divergent strabismus.
- walleyes — Plural form of walleye.
- wallfish — a snail, Helix pomatia
- wallonia — a region in S Belgium: chiefly French-speaking. 6504 sq. mi. (16,844 sq. km).
- walloped — to beat soundly; thrash.
- walloper — to beat soundly; thrash.
- wallowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wallow.
- wallower — a person or thing that wallows.
- wallsend — a city in Tyne and Wear, NE England, near the mouth of the Tyne River.
- wallwort — a caprifoliaceous plant, Sambucus Ebulus, often used formerly for medicinal purposes
- walruses — Plural form of walrus.
- waltzers — Plural form of waltzer.
- waltzing — Present participle of waltz.
- wanchuan — Wade-Giles. former name of Zhangjiakou.
- wandered — to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray: to wander over the earth.
- wanderer — a Covenanter persecuted by Charles II and James II, especially one who fled home to follow rebellious Presbyterian ministers who refused to accept episcopacy.
- wanderoo — any of several purple-faced langurs, of Sri Lanka.
- wandsman — verger (def 2).
- 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.
- wanhsien — Wade-Giles. Wanxian.
- wannabee — wannabe.
- wannabes — Plural form of wannabe.
- wannigan — a lumberjack's trunk.
- want out — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- wantaway — a footballer who wants a transfer to another club
- wanthill — a molehill
- wantless — (archaic) Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
- wantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of wanton.
- wantoner — someone who behaves in a wanton manner
- wantonly — done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty.
- wanweird — (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Misfortune; ill or unhappy fate.
- wanwordy — without merit
- wanworth — an inexpensive purchase