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8-letter words containing a, r, o, w

  • gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
  • garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
  • gasworks — a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.
  • goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
  • grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
  • grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
  • growable — able to be cultivated or grown
  • hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
  • hairwork — the art of producing articles made of hair
  • hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
  • halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
  • handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
  • hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
  • hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.
  • harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
  • harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • harrower — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • hawthorn — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family, typically a small tree with stiff thorns, certain North American species of which have white or pink blossoms and bright-colored fruits and are cultivated in hedges.
  • hayworth — Rita (Margarita Carmen Cansino) 1918–87, U.S. dancer and actress.
  • headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
  • headwork — mental labor; thought.
  • hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
  • holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
  • homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
  • homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
  • horseway — a bridleway
  • hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
  • hovawart — a medium-sized strongly-built dog of a breed with a long thick coat, a thick tuft of hair round the neck, and a long bushy tail
  • how far? — to what extent, distance, or degree?
  • in a row — lined up
  • ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
  • jawboner — a person who jawbones
  • kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
  • lacework — lace (def 1).
  • lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
  • lathwork — work made of laths
  • lawcourt — a court of law
  • 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.
  • leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
  • loanword — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
  • low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
  • low road — a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.
  • low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
  • low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
  • madworts — Plural form of madwort.
  • makework — Alternative form of make-work.
  • maltworm — a heavy drinker
  • manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
  • mansworn — Past participle of manswear.
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