8-letter words containing w, i, g, n
- whishing — a whishing sound.
- whisking — Present participle of whisk.
- whitings — Plural form of whiting.
- whitling — (UK, dialect) A young full trout during its second season.
- whizbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzing — to make a humming, buzzing, or hissing sound, as an object passing swiftly through the air.
- whomping — Present participle of whomp.
- whooping — Present participle of whoop.
- whopping — very large of its kind; thumping: We caught four whopping trout.
- whupping — to whip; beat or defeat decisively: The top seed whupped his opponent in three straight sets.
- widening — Of things that are growing wider.
- widgeons — Plural form of widgeon.
- widowing — Present participle of widow.
- wielding — to exercise (power, authority, influence, etc.), as in ruling or dominating.
- wiggings — Plural form of wigging.
- wiggling — to move or go with short, quick, irregular movements from side to side: The puppies wiggled with delight.
- wightman — Hazel Hotchkiss, 1886–1974, U.S. tennis player.
- wildings — Plural form of wilding.
- wildling — a wild plant, flower, or animal.
- willings — Plural form of willing.
- wimbling — a device used especially in mining for extracting the rubbish from a bored hole.
- wimpling — a woman's headcloth drawn in folds about the chin, formerly worn out of doors, and still in use by some nuns.
- winching — Present participle of winch.
- wind gap — a cut that indents only the upper part of a mountain ridge, usually a former water gap.
- windages — Plural form of windage.
- windbags — Plural form of windbag.
- windgall — a puffy distention of the synovial bursa at the fetlock joint.
- windings — Plural form of winding.
- windring — winding
- wine gum — any of a variety of gumdrops coloured and flavoured to suggest types of wines but containing no alcohol
- wing bar — a line of contrasting color along the coverts of a bird's wing.
- wing bit — a flat bit projecting to one side near the end of a key.
- wing bow — the distinctively colored feathers on the shoulder or bend of the wing of a bird.
- wing dam — a jetty for diverting the current of a stream.
- wing nut — a nut having two flat, widely projecting pieces such that it can be readily tightened with the thumb and forefinger.
- wing tip — Also, wingtip. the extreme outer edge of an airplane wing.
- wingback — an offensive back who lines up outside an end.
- wingbeat — One complete set of motions of a wing in flying.
- wingding — a noisy, exciting celebration or party.
- wingedly — in a winged manner, as if furnished with wings
- wingless — having no wings.
- winglike — resembling a wing.
- wingmate — Alternative form of wingman.
- wingover — an airplane maneuver involving a steep, climbing turn to a near stall, then a sharp drop of the nose, a removal of bank, and a final leveling off in the opposite direction.
- wingspan — the distance between the wing tips of an airplane.
- wingsuit — a type of skydiving suit with fabric under the arms and between the legs, enabling the wearer to reduce his or her rate of fall
- wingtips — Plural form of wingtip.
- winkling — Present participle of winkle.
- winnings — Plural form of winning.
- winnipeg — a province in central Canada. 246,512 sq. mi. (638,466 sq. km). Abbreviation: Man. Capital: Winnipeg.