8-letter words containing w, a
- whizbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whompage — (rare humorous slang) Whomping or whomping on; acts of whomping or whomping on, taken collectively.
- wick bay — an inlet of the North Sea in N Scotland
- wideband — Describing a communications transmission rate between that of narrowband and broadband.
- widowman — a widower
- wightman — Hazel Hotchkiss, 1886–1974, U.S. tennis player.
- wigmaker — a person who makes or sells wigs.
- wild man — a person who is uncivilized; a savage.
- wild oat — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wild yam — any of several uncultivated yams, especially Dioscorea villosa, of the U.S., having a woody, tuberous root.
- wildcard — (computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.
- wildcats — Plural form of wildcat.
- wildland — land that has not been cultivated, especially land set aside and protected as a wilderness.
- willable — capable of being willed or fixed by will.
- willaert — Adrian [ey-dree-uh n,, ah-dree-ahn] /ˈeɪ dri ən,, ˈɑ driˌɑn/ (Show IPA), c1480–1562, Flemish composer.
- williams — a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter W.
- williwaw — a violent squall that blows in near-polar latitudes, as in the Strait of Magellan, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands.
- willyard — obstinate; willful.
- willywaw — Alternative form of williwaw.
- win back — retrieve, recover
- winchman — a man who operates a winch
- wind gap — a cut that indents only the upper part of a mountain ridge, usually a former water gap.
- windable — that can be wound.
- windages — Plural form of windage.
- windbags — Plural form of windbag.
- windfall — an unexpected gain, piece of good fortune, or the like.
- windfarm — a large grouping of wind generators or wind plants located at a site having dependable strong winds.
- windflaw — flaw2 (def 1).
- windgall — a puffy distention of the synovial bursa at the fetlock joint.
- windlass — a device for raising or hauling objects, usually consisting of a horizontal cylinder or barrel turned by a crank, lever, motor, or the like, upon which a cable, rope, or chain winds, the outer end of the cable being attached directly or indirectly to the weight to be raised or the thing to be hauled or pulled; winch.
- windsail — a sail rigged over a hatchway, ventilator, or the like, to divert moving air downward into the vessel.
- windward — toward the wind; toward the point from which the wind blows.
- wine bar — a bar, especially of a café or restaurant, that features a variety of wines served by the glass.
- 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.
- winnable — that can be won: a winnable war.
- winnetka — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- wipeable — able to be wiped
- wiredraw — to draw (metal) out into wire, especially by pulling forcibly through a series of holes of gradually decreasing diameter in a succession of dies.
- wirehair — a fox terrier having a wiry coat.
- wiretaps — Plural form of wiretap.
- wise-ass — Also, wise-assed. insolent; impertinent; smart-ass.
- wiseacre — a person who possesses or affects to possess great wisdom.
- wishable — Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable.
- wistaria — Alternative spelling of wisteria.
- wisteria — any climbing shrub belonging to the genus Wisteria, of the legume family, having showy, pendent clusters of blue-violet, white, purple, or rose flowers.