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8-letter words containing w, h

  • foreshow — to show beforehand.
  • forewish — (transitive) To wish or desire beforehand.
  • gee whiz — People sometimes say gee whiz in order to express a strong reaction to something or to introduce a remark or response.
  • gee-whiz — arousing or characterized by surprise, wonder, or triumphant achievement: a gee-whiz technology; a gee-whiz reaction to the sight of the Grand Canyon.
  • gershwin — George, 1898–1937, U.S. composer.
  • get with — to go along with
  • gluhwein — mulled wine
  • goshawks — Plural form of goshawk.
  • gunwhale — Misspelling of gunwale.
  • gwich'in — a member of a North American Indian people from northwest Canada and northeast Alaska
  • 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.
  • harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
  • haridwar — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N India, on the Ganges River: a holy city to Hindus.
  • harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • harrower — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • hatchway — Nautical. hatch2 (def 1a).
  • hathaway — Anne, 1557–1623, the wife of William Shakespeare.
  • hawaiian — of or relating to Hawaii or the Hawaiian Islands.
  • hawaiite — (geology) An olivine basalt intermediate between alkali olivine and mugearite.
  • hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
  • hawk owl — a gray and white diurnal owl, Surnia ulula, of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, resembling a hawk in appearance and actions.
  • hawk-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
  • hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
  • hawkbill — hawksbill turtle.
  • hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
  • hawklike — any of numerous birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, having a short, hooked beak, broad wings, and curved talons, often seen circling or swooping at low altitudes.
  • hawkling — A small, young, or immature hawk.
  • hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
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