8-letter words containing kw
- backward — A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- backwash — The backwash of an event or situation is an unpleasant situation that exists after it and as a result of it.
- backwind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- backwood — (often used with a singular verb) wooded or partially uncleared and unsettled districts.
- backword — the act or an instance of failing to keep a promise or commitment (esp in the phrase give (someone) backword)
- backwork — work carried out under the ground
- backwrap — anything that can be wrapped around the back to provide back support or relieve back pain
- bakwanga — former name of Mbuji-Mayi.
- bookwork — the keeping of accounts
- bookworm — If you describe someone as a bookworm, you mean they are very fond of reading.
- cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
- corkwing — a greenish or bluish European fish of the wrasse family, Ctenolabrus melops
- corkwood — a small tree, Leitneria floridana, of the southeastern US, having very lightweight porous wood: family Leitneriaceae
- duckwalk — Walk with the body in a squatting posture.
- duckweed — any plant of the family Lemnaceae, especially of the genus Lemna, comprising small aquatic plants that float free on still water.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- hawkweed — any composite plant of the genus Hieracium, usually bearing yellow flowers.
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- hookworm — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- inkwells — Plural form of inkwell.
- kirkwall — a town on Pomona island, NE of Scotland in the Orkney Islands: administrative center of the Orkney Islands.
- kirkward — towards the church
- kirkwood — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- kwakiutl — a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
- kwan-yin — one of the Chinese female Boddhisattvas, noted for her kindness: often considered an aspect of Avalokitesvara.
- kwantung — Older Spelling. Guandong.
- kweichow — Guizhou.
- kweiyang — Guiyang.
- kwyjibos — Plural form of kwyjibo.
- linkwork — something composed of links, as a chain.
- lockwood — Belva Ann Bennett [bel-vuh] /ˈbɛl və/ (Show IPA), 1830–1917, U.S. lawyer and women's-rights activist.
- milkweed — any of several plants that secrete a milky juice or latex, especially those of the genus Asclepias, as A. syriaca. Compare milkweed family.
- milkwood — any of various trees having a milky juice, as Pseudomedia spuria, of Jamaica.
- milkwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the secretion of milk.
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- neckweed — a type of flowering weed (Veronica peregrine) native to North America
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- parkward — towards a park
- pickwick — a picklike implement for catching up and raising a short wick of an oil lamp.
- porkwood — the wood of a small tree, Pisonia obtusata, native to the United States and Caribbean
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- rockwell — Norman, 1894–1978, U.S. illustrator.
- rockwork — stonework.
- silkweed — any milkweed, the pods of which contain a silky down.
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- taskwork — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- teakwood — the wood of the teak.
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