8-letter words starting with w
- waterhen — An aquatic rail, especially a moorhen or related bird.
- waterily — In a watery manner.
- watering — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- waterjet — a stream of water forced out through a small aperture.
- waterlog — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- waterloo — a village in central Belgium, south of Brussels: Napoleon decisively defeated here on June 18, 1815.
- waterman — a person who manages or works on a boat; boatman.
- watermen — Plural form of waterman.
- waterpot — A pot or jug for holding water.
- waterpox — chickenpox
- waterski — Each of a pair of skis enabling the wearer to skim the surface of the water when towed by a motorboat.
- waterway — a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.
- watsonia — any of various iridaceous plants of the genus Watsonia, native to southern Africa, having sword-shaped leaves and spikes of white or reddish flowers.
- wattless — using no power
- wattling — An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle.
- waukegan — a city in NE Illinois, on Lake Michigan, N of Chicago.
- waukesha — a city in SE Wisconsin, W of Milwaukee.
- waulking — Present participle of waulk.
- wave-off — (on an aircraft carrier) the last-minute signaling to an aircraft making its final landing approach that it is not to land on that particular pass but is to go around and come in again.
- waveband — band2 (def 9).
- waveform — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- waveless — Free from waves.
- wavelets — Plural form of wavelet.
- wavelike — a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
- waverers — Plural form of waverer.
- wavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- waverley — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- wavetops — Plural form of wavetop.
- waviness — curving alternately in opposite directions; undulating: a wavy course; wavy hair.
- wax bean — a variety of string bean bearing yellowish, waxy pods.
- wax moth — bee moth.
- wax palm — a tall, pinnate-leaved palm, Ceroxylon alpinum (or C. andicola), of the Andes, whose stem and leaves yield a resinous wax.
- wax tree — a Japanese anacardiaceous tree, Rhus succedanea, having white berries that yield wax
- waxberry — the wax myrtle or the bayberry.
- waxbills — Plural form of waxbill.
- waxiness — The quality of being waxy.
- waxplant — a shrubby climbing plant, Hoya carnosa, of the milkweed family, native to Australia, with umbels of waxy pink or white flowers.
- waxwings — Plural form of waxwing.
- waxworks — an exhibition of or a museum for displaying wax figures, ornaments, etc.
- way port — a port of call on a particular route
- way-cool — outstanding; excellent; marvellous
- waybills — Plural form of waybill.
- wayboard — a thin geological seam separating larger strata
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- wayfarer — a traveler, especially on foot.
- waygoing — the act of leaving; departure; leavetaking.
- wayleave — a right of way over or under another's ground or property, as for transporting minerals from a mine.
- wayleggo — away here! let go!; a shepherd's call to a dog on completion of a task
- waymarks — Plural form of waymark.