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8-letter words containing w, a

  • 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.
  • hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
  • hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
  • hairwork — the art of producing articles made of hair
  • hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
  • half-raw — (of meat) only partially cooked
  • half-wit — a person who is feeble-minded.
  • halfwits — Plural form of halfwit.
  • halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
  • hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
  • hallways — Plural form of hallway.
  • hamewith — in a homewards manner
  • handsaws — Plural form of handsaw.
  • handsewn — sewn by hand.
  • handwash — If you handwash something, you wash it by hand rather than in a washing machine.
  • handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
  • handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
  • hangchow — Older Spelling. Hangzhou.
  • hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
  • hardwall — a type of gypsum plaster used as a basecoat.
  • hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
  • hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
  • hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
  • hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.
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