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

  • headwork — mental labor; thought.
  • hellward — towards hell
  • hereward — called Hereward the Wake. 11th-century Anglo-Saxon rebel, who defended the Isle of Ely against William the Conqueror (1070–71): a subject of many legends
  • hindward — backward
  • hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
  • hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
  • homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
  • hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
  • inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
  • kirkward — towards the church
  • landward — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
  • 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.
  • 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 road — a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.
  • madworts — Plural form of madwort.
  • markdown — a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
  • 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.
  • misaward — to award wrongly
  • misdrawn — 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).
  • moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
  • narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
  • onwardly — moving forward; advancing
  • outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
  • 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.
  • parkward — towards a park
  • passw0rd — (security)   A common default password, often given out by system administrtors to new users, the hope being that they will change it immediately.
  • password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
  • 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).
  • quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
  • radwaste — radioactive waste.
  • randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
  • raw data — data
  • 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.
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