8-letter words containing a, w, o, r
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- rot away — decay
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- royal we — we (def 5).
- ryotwari — (in India) a system of land tenure in which land taxes are paid to the state
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- saltwort — any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- sandwort — any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
- saw-wort — a perennial Old World plant, Serratula tinctoria, having serrated leaves that yield a yellow dye: family Asteraceae (composites)
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- soapwort — a plant, Saponaria officinalis, of the pink family, whose leaves are used for cleansing.
- soaraway — If you describe something as a soaraway success, you mean that its success has suddenly increased.
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- sowarree — an Indian mounted escort
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- starwort — any of several chickweeds of the genus Stellaria.
- strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
- swordman — swordsman.
- tamworth — a city in E Australia.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- taskwork — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- teamwork — cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- toleware — articles made of tole.
- towardly — apt to learn; promising.
- towerman — Railroads. a person who works in a switch tower and, by means of a signal box, directs the movement of trains.
- town car — an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.
- townwear — tailored, usually conservative clothing appropriate for business or other activities in a town or city.
- two pair — a set of two cards of the same denomination together with another matched set of different denomination from the first.
- two-star — of or being a major general, as indicated by two stars on an insignia.
- ultralow — extremely low
- untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
- waggoner — Alternative spelling of wagoner.
- wagoneer — One who drives a wagon.
- waitrons — Plural form of waitron.
- wakeover — A sleepover party in a public place, such as a church, at which little or no sleep actually gets done.
- waldhorn — an organ reed stop
- walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- wallaroo — any of several large kangaroos of the genus Macropus (Osphranter), of the grassy plains of Australia, especially M. robustus, having a reddish-gray coat and inhabiting rocky hills.
- walloper — to beat soundly; thrash.
- wallower — a person or thing that wallows.
- wallwort — a caprifoliaceous plant, Sambucus Ebulus, often used formerly for medicinal purposes