8-letter words containing a, w, o, r
- cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- cowardry — Lb uncommon Cowardice.
- cowgrass — the common name for Trefolium medium, a species of Trefoil; also applied to the commonly cultivated form of red clover
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- crossway — a junction
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- damewort — Hesperis matronalis, a herbaceous mustard.
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- demoware — (computing) A cut-down demonstration version of a computer program so that it can be tried before purchase.
- doorways — Plural form of doorway.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- downward — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- draw off — 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).
- draw out — 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).
- draw top — a tabletop that can be extended by drawing out and raising leaves suspended from either end.
- drawbore — a hole in a tenon made eccentric with the corresponding holes to the mortise so that the two pieces being joined will be forced tightly together when the pin (drawbore pin) is hammered into place.
- drawdown — a lowering of water surface level, as in a well.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- ear worm — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- ear-worm — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- earworms — Plural form of earworm.
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- fallower — A person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.
- fan worm — feather-duster worm.
- farmwork — The agricultural work done on a farm.
- farrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of farrow.
- flatwork — sheets, tablecloths, etc., that are ordinarily ironed mechanically, as on a mangle, rather than by hand.
- flatworm — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having bilateral symmetry and a soft, solid, usually flattened body, including the planarians, tapeworms, and trematodes; platyhelminth.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- flowrate — The flowrate is the speed at which fluid in a pipe moves, or the speed at which it moves from a reservoir into a wellbore.
- foofaraw — a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant.
- footwear — articles to be worn on the feet, as shoes, slippers, or boots.
- forepaws — Plural form of forepaw.
- forewall — The foremost outer wall of a fortification.
- foreward — (obsolete) An advance group; the vanguard.
- forewarn — to warn in advance.
- forswatt — sweat-covered
- forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
- forwards — forward.
- forwaste — to waste completely
- forweary — to exhaust
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.