I am an eight letter word and I am a computer terminology.
The second, third and fourth letters make an animal.
The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth letters make a weapon.
The first, second, third and fourth letters can be taken as an outcome of any exam.
The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth letter combine to form a high end typing software.

Can you tell who am I ?

You measure my life in hours
I serve you by expiring
I vanish faster when I am thin
and slower when I am thick
The wind is my energy
What am I?

It's pretty hard to give up.
If you remove a part of it, you will be left with a bit.
Even if you remove another part, the bit still remains.
Remove one more and it still remains.

What is it?

I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?

As a whole I am both
safe and secure.

Behead me and I become
a place of meeting.

Behead me again and I am
the partner of ready.

Restore me, and I become
the domain of beasts.

What am I?

Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?

A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.

Who am I?

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?