8-letter words containing w, u
- hueytown — a town in central Alabama.
- huntaway — a sheep dog.
- jug wine — any inexpensive wine sold in large bottles, especially a bottle containing 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts) or more.
- just now — a moment ago
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- kwantung — Older Spelling. Guandong.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawfully — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lawsuits — Plural form of lawsuit.
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- lustwort — The sundew.
- mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- mouthbow — Musical bow.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- mugwumps — Plural form of mugwump.
- mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- new chum — a recent British immigrant
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- newfound — newly found or discovered: newfound friends.
- newhouse — Samuel I(rving) 1895–1979, U.S. publisher.
- nutbrown — dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- our town — a play (1938) by Thornton Wilder.
- out-swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- out-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- outblown — Inflated with wind.
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outcrowd — to crowd out or exclude
- outdwell — to last longer than
- outflows — Plural form of outflow.
- outfrown — to outdo in frowning; silence, abash, or subdue by frowning.
- outgrown — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- outgrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgrow.
- outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- outpower — to have more power than or defeat by power
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outsweep — an outward movement of arms in swimming breaststroke
- outswell — to exceed in swelling
- outswept — curving outwards
- outswims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswim.