8-letter words containing a, w, r
- headward — In the region or direction of the head.
- headwear — coverings for the head, especially hats.
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- hellward — towards hell
- hereaway — hereabout.
- 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
- hernshaw — a heron.
- hindward — backward
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- 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
- interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- jaw harp — jew's-harp
- jawboner — a person who jawbones
- kirkwall — a town on Pomona island, NE of Scotland in the Orkney Islands: administrative center of the Orkney Islands.
- kirkward — towards the church
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- 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.
- 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.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- lawmaker — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- lawyerly — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- 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.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- liveware — /li:v'weir/ 1. A less common synonym for wetware 2. (Cambridge) Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad."
- 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.