8-letter words containing w, u
- agueweed — a North American gentianaceous plant, Gentiana quinquefolia, that has clusters of pale blue-violet or white flowers
- aquashow — an exhibition of swimming and diving, often accompanied by music
- ats&gwtu — All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union
- autoflow — (transitive, computing) To flow (text) automatically.
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- awfulize — (psychotherapy) To react dramatically or catastrophically to distressing events.
- bawl out — If someone bawls you out, they shout at you angrily because you have done something wrong.
- blow out — If you blow out a flame or a candle, you blow at it so that it stops burning.
- blow-gun — a pipe or tube through which darts or other missiles are blown by the breath.
- blow-out — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
- blown-up — (of a picture, photograph, image, etc.) enlarged.
- blowtube — a tube used for blowing air or oxygen into a flame to intensify its heat
- blue law — any of the strict puritanical laws prevalent in colonial New England
- bluegown — a bedesman of the king or, in Scotland, a licensed beggar, who traditionally wore a blue gown
- blueweed — a bristly weed (Echium vulgare) of the borage family with blue flowers and pink buds
- bluewing — a variety of teal, Anas discors, native to the Americas
- bluewood — a kind of shrub of the buckthorn family, Condalia obovata, found in Texas and northern Mexico
- bowl out — In a sport such as cricket, if a team is bowled out, each player in that team has had to stop batting and leave the pitch and there is nobody left to bat.
- brew pub — a bar serving beer brewed at a small microbrewery on the premises.
- 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
- budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bullweed — knapweed
- bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
- 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
- burlwood — wood taken or cut from a burl.
- burrowed — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- 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.
- buzz saw — a power-operated circular saw
- buzz-saw — a power-operated circular saw, so named because of the noise it makes.
- buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- chew out — If you chew someone out, you tell them off in a very angry way.
- cow dung — cow manure
- cowhouse — a shelter for cows; a byre or cowshed
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crew cut — A crew cut is a man's hairstyle in which his hair is cut very short.
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- cudweeds — Plural form of cudweed.
- cudworth — Ralph. 1617–88, English philosopher and theologian. His works include True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- cussword — a swearword
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- cutaways — Plural form of cutaway.
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cutworms — Plural form of cutworm.
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