8-letter words containing w, n
- blow-gun — a pipe or tube through which darts or other missiles are blown by the breath.
- blowdown — an accident in a nuclear reactor in which a cooling pipe bursts causing the loss of essential coolant
- blowiron — blowpipe (def 2).
- blown-up — (of a picture, photograph, image, etc.) enlarged.
- bluegown — a bedesman of the king or, in Scotland, a licensed beggar, who traditionally wore a blue gown
- bluewing — a variety of teal, Anas discors, native to the Americas
- bog down — If a plan or process bogs down or if something bogs it down, it is delayed and no progress is made.
- bone wax — a mixture of wax, oil, and carbolic acid applied to the cut surface of a bone to prevent bleeding
- boomtown — a town that has sprung up or expanded rapidly as a result of an economic boom
- botswana — a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
- bow down — If you refuse to bow down to another person, you refuse to show them respect or to behave in a way which you think would make you seem weaker or less important than them.
- bow hand — the hand that holds the bow in archery or in playing a violin, cello, etc.
- bow-iron — (on the car of a sidewalk elevator) a metal arch for parting the cellar doors as the elevator rises.
- boweling — Anatomy. Usually, bowels. the intestine. a part of the intestine.
- bowenite — a compact and dense variety of green serpentine resembling jade.
- bowfront — having a front that curves outwards
- bowingly — in a curved manner
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- brainbow — the result of a process by which the individual neurons of a brain can be mapped with fluorescent proteins under a light source
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- browband — the strap of a horse's bridle that goes across the forehead
- browning — a substance used to darken soups, gravies, etc
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- brownout — a dimming or reduction in the use of electric lights in a city, esp to conserve electric power or as a defensive precaution in wartime
- brownson — Orestes Augustus, 1803–76, U.S. writer.
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- caneware — a type of unglazed, tan-coloured stoneware, developed around 1770 by Josiah Wedgwood
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
- catwoman — (rare) A woman in a cat costume.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- chainsaw — a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- chin-wag — to engage in informal or idle conversation; chat or gossip
- chinchow — Jinzhou
- chindwin — a river in N Myanmar, rising in the Kumôn Range and flowing northwest then south to the Irrawaddy, of which it is the main tributary. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- chowline — A line of people waiting for food.
- ciswoman — (LGBT) A cisgender woman, a woman who is biologically female.
- clownery — clownish behavior.
- clowning — clownish behaviour
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- co-owned — to own jointly with another: a building I co-owned with my brother.
- co-owner — a person who is one of the joint owners of something
- comedown — If you say that something is a comedown, you think that it is not as good as something else that you have just done or had.
- cooldown — a series of gentle stretching exercises conducted after strenuous activity in order to allow the heart rate to gradually return to normal