8-letter words containing a, d, e, r, w
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
- overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
- overdraw — to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- pre-draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- predrawn — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- raw deal — unjust treatment
- raw mode — (operating system) A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Systems that make this distinction for a disk file are generally regarded as broken. Compare rare mode, cooked mode.
- rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- read law — to study to become a lawyer
- rearward — Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.
- redrawer — a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- redwater — a disease of cattle caused by the protozoan Babesia (or Piroplasma) bovis, which destroys the red blood cells, characterized by the passage of red or blackish urine. It is transmitted by tick bites
- rereward — rearward (defs 2, 3).
- rewarded — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewarder — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- seawards — Also, seawards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- swaddler — a blanket in which to swaddle a baby
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- twaddler — trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
- underjaw — the lower jaw
- underway — occurring while under way: the underway activities on a cruise ship.
- unwarded — not warded or guarded; undefended
- unwarmed — not warmed; unheated
- unwarned — not warned or cautioned; without warning
- unwarped — not warped, as a phonograph record or flooring.
- waitered — a person, especially a man, who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waivered — Allowed by waiver; permitted by exception granted from otherwise applicable rules.
- wandered — to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray: to wander over the earth.
- wanderer — a Covenanter persecuted by Charles II and James II, especially one who fled home to follow rebellious Presbyterian ministers who refused to accept episcopacy.