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8-letter words containing w, u

  • outswing — (cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.
  • outswung — made to curve outwards
  • outthrow — to throw out or extend: His arms were outthrown in greeting.
  • outtower — to tower over
  • outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
  • outwaste — to squander or use up wastefully
  • outwatch — to outdo or surpass in watching.
  • outweary — to exhaust completely
  • outweigh — to exceed in value, importance, influence, etc.: The advantages of the plan outweighed its defects.
  • outwhirl — to surpass at whirling
  • outworks — Plural form of outwork.
  • outworld — (in science fiction) an outlying or alien planet.
  • outworth — to be more valuable than
  • outwrest — to pull out or get possession of forcibly; extort
  • outwrite — to write more or better than.
  • owen gun — a type of simple recoil-operated 9 mm sub-machine-gun first used by Australian forces in World War II
  • owerloup — an encroachment
  • power up — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
  • pulldown — a mechanism that intermittently advances the film through the film gate of a camera or projector.
  • pulpwood — spruce or other soft wood suitable for making paper.
  • pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
  • put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • put down — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
  • put wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
  • put-down — a landing of an aircraft.
  • quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
  • rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
  • routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
  • rub down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
  • run away — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • run down — melted or liquefied: run butter.
  • run wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
  • run with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • run-down — fatigued; weary; exhausted.
  • rushwork — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
  • russwurm — John Brown, 1799–1851, Jamaican-born journalist in the U.S. and (after 1829) journalist and statesman in Liberia.
  • sawdusty — filled with or suggesting sawdust.
  • screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • screw-up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
  • show out — to conduct a person out of a room or building by opening the door for him
  • showjump — to take part in a showjumping competition
  • shutdown — a shutting down, as of a factory, school, or machine; a termination or suspension of operations, services, or business activity: a partial government shutdown; an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
  • snow gum — any of various eucalyptus trees that grow at high altitude, esp Eucalyptus pauciflora
  • snowbush — any of several ornamental shrubs having a profusion of white flowers, as Ceanothus cordulatus, of the buckthorn family, native to western North America.
  • snowsuit — a child's one- or two-piece outer garment for cold weather, often consisting of heavily lined pants and jacket.
  • sourwood — sorrel tree.
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