8-Letter Words Starting With W

Here's the list of all the 1080 8-Letter Words Starting With W in the English Language.

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wireless
1. medium for communication
2. transmission by radio waves
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workshop
1. small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
2. a brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving
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warranty
1. a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
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whatever
1. one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential
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wildlife
1. all living things (except people) that are undomesticated
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watching
1. the act of observing; taking a patient look
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wellness
1. a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
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wrapping
1. arrange or fold as a cover or protection
2. arrange or coil around
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wherever
1. where in the world; location, singular, elective existential pronoun
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weighted
1. made heavy or weighted down with weariness
2. adjusted to reflect value or proportion
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workflow
1. progress (or rate of progress) in work being done
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woodland
1. land that is covered with trees and shrubs
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withdraw
1. pull back or move away or backward
2. withdraw from active participation
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weakness
1. a flaw or weak point
2. powerlessness revealed by an inability to act
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waterloo
1. a final crushing defeat
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wardrobe
1. a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
2. collection of clothing belonging to one person
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weighing
1. careful consideration
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whistler
1. someone who makes a loud high sound
2. large North American mountain marmot
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workload
1. work that a person is expected to do in a specified time
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withheld
1. hold back; refuse to hand over or share
2. retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
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workbook
1. a student's book or booklet containing problems with spaces for solving them
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watchdog
1. a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste
2. a dog trained to guard property
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wrongful
1. having no legally established claim
2. unlawfully violating the rights of others
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washable
1. capable of being washed without injury
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worrying
1. the act of harassing someone
2. the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes
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watering
1. shedding tears
2. wetting with water
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widening
1. an increase in width
2. a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park
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waveform
1. the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time
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whipping
1. beat severely with a whip or rod
2. defeat thoroughly
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wrangler
1. someone who argues noisily or angrily
2. a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses
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wheeling
1. propelling something on wheels
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weakened
1. impaired by diminution
2. made weak or weaker
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withdrew
1. pull back or move away or backward
2. withdraw from active participation
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workings
1. the internal mechanism of a device
2. a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
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withhold
1. hold back; refuse to hand over or share
2. retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
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woodruff
1. Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula
2. any plant of the genus Asperula
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waitress
1. serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant
2. a woman waiter
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wildfire
1. a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
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waterway
1. a navigable body of water
2. a conduit through which water flows
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westward
1. the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees
2. moving toward the west
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windmill
1. a mill that is powered by the wind
2. generator that extracts usable energy from winds
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werewolf
1. a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again
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workable
1. capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
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waterman
1. someone who drives or rides in a boat
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winnings
1. something won (especially money)
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woodwork
1. work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture
2. the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
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woodwind
1. any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
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westerly
1. of wind; from the west
2. moving toward the west
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wrestler
1. combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground
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wearable
1. suitable for wear or able to be worn
2. a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
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weaponry
1. weapons considered collectively
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wretched
1. of very poor quality or condition
2. characterized by physical misery
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wondrous
1. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
2. (used as an intensifier) excellently
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wanderer
1. someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
2. a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
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wrecking
1. the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled
2. destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
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whiplash
1. an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)
2. a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
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wideband
1. responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies
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windfall
1. fruit that has fallen from the tree
2. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
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whopping
1. strike hard
2. hit hard
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windward
1. the direction from which the wind is coming
2. the side of something that is toward the wind
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wreckage
1. the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked
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watchful
1. experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness
2. carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
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wasteful
1. tending to squander and waste
2. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
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warfarin
1. an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus
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workwear
1. heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work
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woodbine
1. common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
2. European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers
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wounding
1. the act of inflicting a wound
2. causing physical or especially psychological injury
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wrinkled
1. marked by wrinkles
2. (of linens or clothes) not ironed
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watchman
1. a guard who keeps watch
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worsened
1. changed for the worse in health or fitness
2. made or become worse; impaired
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woodcock
1. game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
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whiskers
1. the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
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washroom
1. a lavatory (particularly a lavatory in a public place)
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wizardry
1. exceptional creative ability
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wishbone
1. the furcula of a domestic fowl
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wheezing
1. relating to breathing with a whistling sound
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whirling
1. the act of rotating in a circle or spiral
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withered
1. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
2. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
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wingspan
1. linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil
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wisteria
1. any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria
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woefully
1. in an unfortunate or deplorable manner
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workweek
1. hours or days of work in a calendar week
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waggoner
1. the driver of a wagon
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wellhead
1. the source of water for a well
2. a structure built over a well
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wickedly
1. in a wicked evil manner
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wormwood
1. any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium
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wormhole
1. hole made by a burrowing worm
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wordplay
1. a humorous play on words
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weeklong
1. lasting through a week
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writhing
1. moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion
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wavering
1. indecision in speech or action
2. the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes
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windsurf
1. ride standing on a surfboard with an attached sail, on water
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wilfully
1. in a willful manner
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whacking
1. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
2. (British informal) enormous
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woodsman
1. someone who lives in the woods
2. makes things out of wood
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wayfarer
1. a pedestrian who walks from place to place
2. a traveler going on a trip
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whodunit
1. a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
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whitener
1. an agent that makes things white or colorless
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wildness
1. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
2. the property of being wild or turbulent
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wordless
1. expressed without speech
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witchery
1. the art of sorcery
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wingless
1. lacking wings
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witching
1. the use or practice of witchcraft
2. possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
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workroom
1. room where work is done
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wildfowl
1. flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food
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windlass
1. lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
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wobbling
1. (of sound) fluctuating unsteadily
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wristlet
1. a band or bracelet worn around the wrist
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8-Letter Words Starting With W