8-letter words starting with we
- weedless — Lacking weeds.
- weekdays — every day, especially Monday through Friday, during the workweek: Weekdays we're open from nine till five.
- weekends — every weekend; on or during weekends: We go fishing weekends.
- weeklies — Plural form of weekly.
- weeklong — Which lasts for a week, or approximately so.
- weeniest — Superlative form of weeny.
- weephole — a small drain hole in a wall
- weevilly — Alternative form of weevily.
- weftwise — in a horizontal direction; from selvage to selvage; crosswise.
- wegotism — (colloquial, dated) Excessive use of the pronoun 'we'.
- weichsel — a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1050 km) long.
- weigelas — Plural form of weigela.
- weigh in — the act or an instance of weighing in: After the weigh-in the fighters posed for photographers.
- weigh on — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- weigh up — compare
- weigh-in — the act or an instance of weighing in: After the weigh-in the fighters posed for photographers.
- weighage — a duty paid for weighing goods
- weighers — Plural form of weigher.
- weighing — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- weighman — a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.
- weighted — having additional weight.
- weighter — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- weinberg — Steven. born 1933, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1979) with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam for his role in formulating the electroweak theory
- weirdest — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
- weirdies — Plural form of weirdie.
- weirdoes — Plural form of weirdo.
- weismann — August [ou-goo st] /ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1834–1914, German biologist.
- weizmann — Chaim [khahy-im] /ˈxaɪ ɪm/ (Show IPA), 1874–1952, Israeli chemist and Zionist leader, born in Russia: 1st president of Israel 1948–52.
- welching — welsh.
- welchman — Welshman.
- welcomed — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomer — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomes — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- weldable — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- weldings — Plural form of welding.
- weldment — a welded assembly.
- weldmesh — a type of metal fencing consisting of wire mesh reinforced by welding
- well log — log1 (def 7).
- well met — (used as a salutation or part of a salutation).
- well off — having sufficient money for comfortable living; well-to-do.
- well-fed — fat; plump.
- well-led — simple past tense and past participle of lead1 .
- well-man — a healthy man who attends a clinic or surgery to ensure that his general health, lifestyle, and sexual performance are satisfactory
- well-met — (used as a salutation or part of a salutation).
- well-off — having sufficient money for comfortable living; well-to-do.
- well-put — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- well-set — firmly set or fixed.
- welladay — woe! alas!
- wellaway — woe! alas!
- wellbore — A wellbore is a hole drilled in the ground in order to look for or extract natural resources such as oil and gas.