8-letter words containing w, e, a, n
- waspnest — the nest of a wasp
- wastebin — A wastebasket; a bin used for household or office waste.
- watchmen — a person who keeps guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals, or thieves.
- waterhen — An aquatic rail, especially a moorhen or related bird.
- 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.
- waterman — a person who manages or works on a boat; boatman.
- watermen — Plural form of waterman.
- waukegan — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan, N of Chicago.
- waveband — band2 (def 9).
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- waviness — curving alternately in opposite directions; undulating: a wavy course; wavy hair.
- wax bean — a variety of string bean bearing yellowish, waxy pods.
- waxiness — The quality of being waxy.
- weakened — to make weak or weaker.
- weakener — A person who, or thing that weakens.
- weakling — a person who is physically or morally weak.
- weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
- wealsman — a statesman
- weanling — a child or animal newly weaned.
- weaponed — Armed with a weapon.
- weaponry — weapons or weaponlike instruments collectively.
- wearying — Causing tiredness; tiring.
- weavings — Plural form of weaving.
- weighman — a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.
- weismann — August [ou-goo st] /ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1834–1914, German biologist.
- weizmann — Chaim [khahy-im] /ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1874–1952, Israeli chemist and Zionist leader, born in Russia: 1st president of Israel 1948–52.
- welchman — Welshman.
- well-man — a healthy man who attends a clinic or surgery to ensure that his general health, lifestyle, and sexual performance are satisfactory
- wellsian — of or relating to the writings of H.G. Wells
- welshman — a native or inhabitant of Wales.
- wesleyan — of or relating to John Wesley, founder of Methodism.
- westenra — Hayley (Dee). born 1987, New Zealand singer, known for the purity of her voice in many musical genres
- westland — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- wetlands — Plural form of wetland An area or region that is characteristically saturated; a marsh.
- whaleman — a person whose occupation is whaling; whaler.
- whangees — Plural form of whangee.
- wharenui — An ornamental Maori meeting house representing the body of a tupuna, forming part of the larger marae complex.
- whatness — (philosophy) Essence; quiddity.
- wheelman — Also, wheelsman [hweelz-muh n, weel-] /ˈʰwilz mən, ˈwil-/ (Show IPA). a helmsman or steersman.
- whiteman — Paul ("Pops") 1891–1967, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- wideband — Describing a communications transmission rate between that of narrowband and broadband.
- windable — that can be wound.
- windages — Plural form of windage.
- wine bar — a bar, especially of a café or restaurant, that features a variety of wines served by the glass.
- wingbeat — One complete set of motions of a wing in flying.
- wingmate — Alternative form of wingman.
- winnable — that can be won: a winnable war.
- winnetka — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- wolfbane — See 'wolfsbane'.
- womanise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanize.