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7-letter words containing w, i, g, n

  • wasting — not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents.
  • waxwing — any of several songbirds of the family Bombycillidae, having a showy crest and certain feathers tipped with a red, waxy material, as Bombycilla garrulus (Bohemian waxwing) of the Northern Hemisphere.
  • wealing — Present participle of weal.
  • weaning — The (passive) process of a child or animal ceasing to be dependant on the mother for nourishment.
  • wearing — gradually impairing or wasting: Reading small print can be wearing on the eyes.
  • weaving — to interlace (threads, yarns, strips, fibrous material, etc.) so as to form a fabric or material.
  • webbing — something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
  • webring — a set of related websites that one can visit one after the other
  • wedding — the act or ceremony of marrying; marriage; nuptials.
  • wedging — a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b).
  • weeding — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
  • weening — Present participle of ween.
  • weeping — expressing grief, sorrow, or any overwhelming emotion by shedding tears: weeping multitudes.
  • weifang — a city in N Shandong province, in NE China.
  • welding — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
  • welling — a hole drilled or bored into the earth to obtain water, petroleum, natural gas, brine, or sulfur.
  • welting — a ridge or wale on the surface of the body, as from a blow of a stick or whip.
  • wendigo — Alternative spelling of windigo.
  • wending — to pursue or direct (one's way).
  • werning — Present participle of wern.
  • westing — Navigation. the distance due west made good on any course tending westward; westerly departure.
  • wetting — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
  • whaling — the work or industry of capturing and rendering whales; whale fishing.
  • whiling — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
  • whinged — Simple past tense and past participle of whing.
  • whinger — to complain; whine.
  • whinges — Plural form of whinge.
  • whining — to utter a low, usually nasal, complaining cry or sound, as from uneasiness, discontent, peevishness, etc.: The puppies were whining from hunger.
  • whiting — a slender food fish of the genus Menticirrhus, of the croaker family, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast of North America.
  • whoring — a person who engages in promiscuous sex for money; prostitute.
  • wicking — 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.
  • widgeon — any of several common freshwater ducks related to the mallards and teals in the genus Anas, having metallic green flight feathers, a white wing patch, and a buff or white forehead, including A. penelope of Eurasia and North Africa, A. sibilatrix of South America, and the baldpate, A. americana, of North America.
  • wigging — an artificial covering of hair for all or most of the head, of either synthetic or natural hair, worn to be stylish or more attractive.
  • wiggins — Sir Bradley (Marc). born 1980, English racing cyclist; winner of five Olympic gold medals for Britain; first British cyclist (2012) to win the Tour de France
  • wigtown — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • wilding — Often, wilds. an uncultivated, uninhabited, or desolate region or tract; waste; wilderness; desert: a cabin in the wild; a safari to the wilds of Africa.
  • willing — disposed or consenting; inclined: willing to go along.
  • wilting — to become limp and drooping, as a fading flower; wither.
  • wimping — Present participle of wimp.
  • wincing — to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; start; flinch.
  • windage — the influence of the wind in deflecting a missile.
  • windbag — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
  • windgun — an air gun
  • windigo — (in the folklore of the Ojibwa and other Indians) a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh.
  • winding — the act of winding.
  • wing it — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
  • wingate — Orde (Charles) (ɔːd). 1903–44, British soldier. During World War II he organized the Chindits in Burma (Myanmar) to disrupt Japanese communications. He died in an air crash
  • wingbow — a distinctive band of colour marking the wing of a bird
  • wingers — Plural form of winger.
  • winging — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
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