8-letter words containing w, i, g, n
- wakening — awakening.
- waltzing — Present participle of waltz.
- wanganui — a port in New Zealand, on SW North Island: centre for a dairy-farming and sheep-rearing district. Pop: 43 600 (2004 est)
- wangling — Present participle of wangle.
- wannigan — a lumberjack's trunk.
- warbling — to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.
- warnings — Plural form of warning.
- washings — the act of a person or thing that washes; ablution.
- wastings — Plural form of wasting.
- watching — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- 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.
- wattling — An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle.
- waulking — Present participle of waulk.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- waxwings — Plural form of waxwing.
- waygoing — the act of leaving; departure; leavetaking.
- weakling — a person who is physically or morally weak.
- weanling — a child or animal newly weaned.
- wearying — Causing tiredness; tiring.
- weavings — Plural form of weaving.
- web ring — A web ring is a set of related websites that you can visit one after the other.
- weddings — Plural form of wedding.
- wedeling — to engage in wedeln.
- weigh in — the act or an instance of weighing in: After the weigh-in the fighters posed for photographers.
- weigh on — 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.
- weigh-in — the act or an instance of weighing in: After the weigh-in the fighters posed for photographers.
- weighing — 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.
- weighman — a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.
- weinberg — Steven. born 1933, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1979) with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam for his role in formulating the electroweak theory
- welching — welsh.
- weldings — Plural form of welding.
- welshing — Present participle of welsh.
- wenching — a country lass or working girl: The milkmaid was a healthy wench.
- westings — Plural form of westing.
- westling — (obsolete) A westerner.
- whacking — large.
- whanging — a resounding blow.
- whapping — whopping.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.
- wheeling — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
- wheezing — The quality or symptom of breathing with an audible wheeze.
- whelming — to submerge; engulf.
- whelping — Present participle of whelp.
- whetting — to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.
- whiffing — Present participle of whiff.
- whingers — Plural form of whinger.
- whinging — to complain; whine.
- whipping — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- whirling — to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly: The merry-go-round whirled noisily.
- whirring — to go, fly, revolve, or otherwise move quickly with a humming or buzzing sound: An electric fan whirred softly in the corner.