8-letter words containing w
- broadway — a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
- browband — the strap of a horse's bridle that goes across the forehead
- browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
- browless — without eyebrows
- browning — a substance used to darken soups, gravies, etc
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- brownout — a dimming or reduction in the use of electric lights in a city, esp to conserve electric power or as a defensive precaution in wartime
- brownson — Orestes Augustus, 1803–76, U.S. writer.
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bullweed — knapweed
- bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
- bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- burlwood — wood taken or cut from a burl.
- burrowed — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- bushwalk — to hike through bushland
- busywork — Busywork is work that is intended to keep someone occupied and is not completely necessary.
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- buzz saw — a power-operated circular saw
- buzz-saw — a power-operated circular saw, so named because of the noise it makes.
- buzzword — A buzzword is a word or expression that has become fashionable in a particular field and is being used a lot by the media.
- by water — by ship or boat
- bye-blow — by-blow (def 2).
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- cagework — openwork resembling the bars of a cage
- cakewalk — If you say that something is a cakewalk, you mean that it is very easy to do or achieve.
- caldwell — Erskine (ˈɜːskɪn). 1903–87, US novelist whose works include Tobacco Road (1933)
- calloway — Cab(ell) 1907–1994, U.S. jazz bandleader and singer.
- callware — (company) The developers of Phonetastic.
- camwhore — a person who performs sexual or titillating acts in front of a webcam for the gratification of online customers who reward him or her with money or gifts
- caneware — a type of unglazed, tan-coloured stoneware, developed around 1770 by Josiah Wedgwood
- canework — strips of cane that are interlaced and used in cane chairs or the like.
- capeweed — a low-growing, creeping plant, Arctotheca calendulacea, used as a ground cover in warm climates.
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- car wash — a place or structure having special equipment for washing automobiles.
- careware — computer software licensed in exchange for a donation to charity
- careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
- carraway — Alternative form of caraway.
- case law — Case law is law that has been established by following decisions made by judges in earlier cases.
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- caseworm — any of various insect larvae that build protective cases about their bodies
- cash cow — In business, a cash cow is a product or investment that steadily continues to be profitable.
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- castaway — A castaway is a person who has managed to swim or float to a lonely island or shore after their boat has sunk.
- cat yawl — a yawl having the mainmast close to the stem and the after mast on the counter.
- catwalks — Plural form of catwalk.