8-letter words containing w, e, i, l
- welshing — Present participle of welsh.
- weregild — (in Anglo-Saxon England and other Germanic countries)
- werelion — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between lion and human form.
- westling — (obsolete) A westerner.
- westlins — to or in the west
- wheelies — Plural form of wheelie.
- wheeling — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
- wheezily — In a wheezy manner.
- whelming — to submerge; engulf.
- whelping — Present participle of whelp.
- wheylike — Resembling whey.
- whiffled — Simple past tense and past participle of whiffle.
- whiffler — an attendant who clears the way for a procession.
- whimbrel — a curlew, Numenius phaeopus, of both the New and Old Worlds.
- whipless — without a whip
- whiplike — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- whistled — Simple past tense and past participle of whistle.
- whistler — James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.
- whistles — Plural form of whistle.
- whitefly — any of several plant-sucking, homopterous insects of the family Aleyrodidae, having the body and wings dusted with a white, powdery wax, and being widely distributed chiefly in tropical regions where they are often serious crop pests, as Dialeurodes citri (citrus whitefly) commonly occurring on citrus trees, and Trialeurodes vaporariorum (greenhouse whitefly) inhabiting greenhouses.
- whitelaw — William (Stephen Ian), 1st Viscount Whitelaw of Penrith. 1918–99, British Conservative politician; Home Secretary (1979–83); leader of the House of Lords (1983–88)
- whiteley — Brett. 1939–1992, Australian artist, who travelled widely in Europe and Asia; his works include landscapes, nudes, and portraits
- whittled — to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.
- whittler — to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.
- whittles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whittle.
- wickedly — evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- wickless — a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.
- wielders — Plural form of wielder.
- wielding — to exercise (power, authority, influence, etc.), as in ruling or dominating.
- wifeless — Having no wife; unmarried or celibate.
- wifelike — wifely.
- wigglers — Plural form of wiggler.
- wild rye — any grass of the genus Elymus, somewhat resembling rye.
- wildered — to cause to lose one's way.
- wildfire — a highly flammable composition, as Greek fire, difficult to extinguish when ignited, formerly used in warfare.
- wildlife — undomesticated animals living in the wild, including those hunted for food, sport, or profit.
- wildness — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- wilf hey — (person) The person who originally developed Report Program Generator and coined the phrase GIGO (garbage in: garbage out). In 2004, after more than forty years in computing, he was writing for PC Plus magazine in the UK and doing Wilf's programmers workshop amongst other things. He died on 2007-01-01 after a long illness.
- wiliness — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
- 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.
- willem i — William I (def 2).
- willowed — any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, characterized by narrow, lance-shaped leaves and dense catkins bearing small flowers, many species having tough, pliable twigs or branches used for wickerwork, etc. Compare willow family.
- willower — a person or a thing that willows.
- wilmette — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- winchell — Walter, 1897–1972, U.S. newspaper columnist and radio and television broadcaster.
- windable — that can be wound.
- windbell — a bell forming part of a set of wind chimes
- windless — without wind; calm: a windless summer afternoon.
- winfield — a town in S Kansas.