8-letter words containing w
- cynewulf — ?8th century ad, Anglo-Saxon poet; author of Juliana, The Ascension, Elene, and The Fates of the Apostles
- damewort — Hesperis matronalis, a herbaceous mustard.
- daneweed — an alternative name for a danewort
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- dawdling — proceeding at a slow pace
- dawnings — Plural form of dawning.
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- deadwood — dead trees or branches
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- declawed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaw.
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.
- deep web — the part of the World Wide Web not accessible through conventional search engines
- deerweed — a shrub, Lotus scoparius, that is native to California and produces small yellow flowers in the summer
- deflower — to despoil of beauty, innocence, etc; mar; violate
- delaware — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living near the Delaware River
- demoware — (computing) A cut-down demonstration version of a computer program so that it can be tried before purchase.
- desqview — A system from Quarterdeck Office Systems implementing multitasking under MS-DOS.
- dew cell — an electrical instrument for measuring the dew point.
- dew claw — a functionless claw of some dogs, not reaching the ground in walking.
- dew line — distant early warning line, a network of radar stations situated mainly in Arctic regions to give early warning of aircraft or missile attack on North America
- dew pond — a shallow pond, usually man-made, that is kept supplied with water by dew and condensation
- dew-worm — any large earthworm that is found on the ground at night and is used as fishing bait
- dewberry — any trailing bramble, such as Rubus hispidus of North America and R. caesius of Europe and NW Asia, having blue-black fruits
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- dewdrops — a drop of dew.
- dewikify — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.
- dewiness — The state or quality of being dewy.
- dewormer — an agent for ridding (animals) of worms
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
- die away — If a sound dies away, it gradually becomes weaker or fainter and finally disappears completely.
- die down — If something dies down, it becomes very much quieter or less intense.
- dillweed — the leaves of the dill plant, especially when used dried and as a food flavoring.
- diredawa — a city in E Ethiopia.
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disavows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disavow.
- disbowel — (rare) To disembowel.
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- disendow — to deprive (a church, school, etc.) of endowment.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- disowned — Simple past tense and past participle of disown.
- doctorow — E(dgar) L(aurence) born 1931, U.S. author and editor.
- dog show — a competitive event in which dogs are exhibited and judged by an established standard or set of ideals prescribed for each breed.
- dog wolf — a male wolf
- dog work — tedious labor; drudgery.
- dogwatch — Nautical. either of two two-hour watches, the first from 4 to 6 p.m., the latter from 6 to 8 p.m.