10-letter words containing w, i, g, n
- warlording — (Internet) The act of denouncing, dissecting or mocking bloated signature blocks in Usenet postings.
- warranting — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- warrington — a city in Cheshire, in NW England, on the Mersey River.
- washing-up — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- wassailing — Present participle of wassail.
- watchnight — Alternative form of watch night.
- water sign — any of the three astrological signs, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, that are grouped together because of the shared attributes of sensitivity and emotionalism.
- waveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- wayfinding — (biology) The ability of a person or animal to orientate itself and to navigate; the process used by a person or animal for orienting itself and navigating.
- waymarking — A recreational activity involving the finding and logging of points of interest, usually with a GPS receiver and digital camera.
- wearyingly — In a wearying way.
- weaselling — (British) present participle of weasel.
- weathering — the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
- web design — a person who plans, designs, creates, and often maintains websites.
- webcasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- weblogging — (computing) The design and editing of a weblog; blogging.
- websurfing — Present participle of websurf.
- wee-weeing — urine.
- weeknights — Plural form of weeknight.
- weigh down — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- weight man — a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
- weightings — Plural form of weighting.
- weinberger — Caspar W(illard) ("Cap") 1917–2006, U.S. government official: Secretary of Defense 1981–87.
- well-being — a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity; welfare: to influence the well-being of the nation and its people.
- well-doing — good conduct or action.
- wellington — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
- wellspring — the head or source of a spring, stream, river, etc.; fountainhead.
- wharfinger — a person who owns or has charge of a wharf.
- wheezingly — With a wheezing sound.
- whethering — (obsolete) The retention of the afterbirth in cows.
- whickering — to whinny; neigh.
- whimpering — Present participle of whimper.
- whing-ding — wing-ding.
- whippeting — the sport of racing whippets
- whipsawing — Present participle of whipsaw.
- whirlingly — With a whirling motion.
- whiskering — (fashion) The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a
- whispering — the mode of utterance, or the voice, of a person who whispers: to speak in a whisper.
- white lung — asbestosis.
- whittlings — the act of a person who whittles.
- whizz-bang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzbangs — Plural form of whizzbang.
- whizzingly — in a whizzing manner, with a whizzing sound or motion
- wholegrain — A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.
- wide-angle — of or relating to a lens having a relatively wide angle of view, generally 45° or more, and a focal length of less than 50 mm.
- wigwagging — Present participle of wigwag.
- willingdon — Freeman Freeman-Thomas [free-muh n-tom-uh s] /ˈfri mənˈtɒm əs/ (Show IPA), 1st Marquis of, 1866–1941, British colonial official: governor general of Canada 1926–31; viceroy and governor general of India 1931–36.
- willingest — Superlative form of willing.
- willingham — Calder, 1922–95, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.