8-letter words containing w
- catwoman — (rare) A woman in a cat costume.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chainsaw — a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain
- chaochow — Chaozhou.
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- checkrow — a row of plants, esp corn, in which the spaces between adjacent plants are equal to those between adjacent rows to facilitate cultivation
- chepstow — a town in S Wales, in Monmouthshire on the River Wye: tourism, light industry. Pop: 10 821 (2001)
- cherwell — 1st Viscount title of Frederick Alexander Lindemann (ˈlɪndəmən). 1886–1957, British physicist, born in Germany, noted for his research on heat capacity, aeronautics, and atomic physics. He was scientific adviser to Winston Churchill during World War II
- chew out — If you chew someone out, you tell them off in a very angry way.
- chewable — Chewable describes drugs that are best or most easily absorbed by chewing.
- chewiest — Superlative form of chewy.
- chichewa — the language of the Chewa people of central Africa, widely used as a lingua franca in Malawi. It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
- chigwell — a town in S England, in W Essex. Pop: 10 128 (2001)
- chin-wag — to engage in informal or idle conversation; chat or gossip
- chinchow — Jinzhou
- chindwin — a river in N Myanmar, rising in the Kumôn Range and flowing northwest then south to the Irrawaddy, of which it is the main tributary. Length: about 966 km (600 miles)
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- chlodwig — German name of Clovis I.
- chowchow — pickled vegetables in a highly seasoned mustard sauce
- chowders — Plural form of chowder.
- chowline — A line of people waiting for food.
- chowtime — the time for eating a meal
- ciswoman — (LGBT) A cisgender woman, a woman who is biologically female.
- cityward — towards a city
- citywide — Citywide activities or situations happen or exist in all parts of a city.
- clamworm — any of several burrowing polychaete worms of the genus Nereis, used as bait for fishing.
- claw bar — a crowbar or lever having a bend at one end with a claw for pulling spikes.
- claw off — to avoid the dangers of (a lee shore or other hazard) by beating
- clawback — the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or penalty
- clawfoot — (medicine, uncountable) A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion.
- clawless — Having no claws.
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- clayware — pottery
- clearway — a stretch of road on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- clerihew — a form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person
- clownery — clownish behavior.
- clowning — clownish behaviour
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- co-owned — to own jointly with another: a building I co-owned with my brother.
- co-owner — a person who is one of the joint owners of something
- co-wrote — to coauthor.
- cobwebby — bearing an accumulation of cobwebs.
- cockcrow — daybreak
- codeword — (esp in military use) a word used to identify a classified plan, operation, etc
- cogwheel — a wheel with a rim notched into teeth, which mesh with those of another wheel or of a rack to transmit or receive motion
- cold war — The Cold War was the period of hostility and tension between the Soviet bloc and the Western powers that followed the Second World War.
- coldslaw — coleslaw.