8-letter words containing w
- awaiting — waiting
- awakened — Rouse from sleep; cause to stop sleeping.
- awakener — a person or thing that awakens
- awanting — missing or in want of
- awardees — the recipient of an award.
- awarders — Plural form of awarder.
- awarding — Present participle of award.
- away win — a game won at an opponent's ground
- awayness — the state of not being in a specific place
- aweather — towards the weather
- awesomer — (nonstandard) Comparative form of awesome.
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- awfulize — (psychotherapy) To react dramatically or catastrophically to distressing events.
- awninged — sheltered by or covered with an awning
- babywear — Babywear is a clothing product category for babies and infants up to 2 years old.
- back row — the forwards at the rear of a scrum
- back saw — a short saw with a reinforced back.
- backdown — an act of retreating from a previously asserted position
- backflow — a reverse flow, the movement (of a liquid) in the opposite direction to its previous, natural or intended direction
- backsaws — Plural form of backsaw.
- 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
- bad news — someone or something regarded as undesirable
- bagwoman — a woman who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money.
- bagworms — Plural form of bagworm.
- bakeware — Tins, trays, and dishes that are used for baking can be referred to as bakeware.
- bakewell — Robert. 1725–95, English agriculturist; radically improved livestock breeding, esp of cattle and sheep
- bakwanga — former name of Mbuji-Mayi.
- ballgown — A ballgown is a long dress that women wear to formal dances.
- ballhawk — a sportsman who is skilled at winning possession of the ball, esp in basketball
- balywick — Alternative form of bailiwick.
- band saw — a power-operated saw consisting of an endless toothed metal band running over and driven by two wheels
- bangalow — an Australian palm, Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, native to New South Wales and Queensland
- barbwire — barbed wire
- barn owl — any owl of the genus Tyto, esp T. alba, having a pale brown and white plumage, long slender legs, and a heart-shaped face: family Tytonidae
- barnwood — aged and weathered boards, especially those salvaged from dismantled barns: The den was paneled in barnwood.
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- basswood — any of several North American linden trees, esp Tilia americana
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- batwoman — a female servant in any of the armed forces
- bawl out — If someone bawls you out, they shout at you angrily because you have done something wrong.
- beadwork — a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation
- beantown — Boston
- bear paw — a type of small round snowshoe
- bearward — a bear keeper