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8-letter words containing d, i, w

  • mixdowns — Plural form of mixdown.
  • overwide — too wide
  • overwind — to wind beyond the proper limit; wind too far: He must have overwound his watch.
  • pin down — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
  • pinewood — the wood of a pine.
  • prewired — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
  • red wine — wine having a predominantly red color derived from the skin pigment in the red or other dark-colored grapes used in making it.
  • red wing — (Tantangamini) c1750–c1825, Sioux leader.
  • red wire — (jargon, hardware)   (IBM) Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire.
  • rewinded — an act or instance of rewinding.
  • richweed — clearweed.
  • ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
  • rig down — Chiefly Nautical. to put in proper order for working or use. to fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with the necessary shrouds, stays, etc. to fit (shrouds, stays, sails, etc.) to the mast, yard, or the like.
  • ringwood — a town in N New Jersey.
  • rowdyish — like or characteristic of a rowdy.
  • rowdyism — rough, disorderly behavior.
  • run wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
  • sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
  • sedgwick — Ellery, 1872–1960, U.S. journalist and editor.
  • semiwild — not fully domesticated; partially tamed or cultivated; having some characteristics of the wild
  • semiwild — not fully domesticated; partially tamed or cultivated; having some characteristics of the wild
  • shrewdie — a shrewd person
  • side-way — a byway.
  • sideshow — a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
  • sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
  • sidewall — the part of a pneumatic tire between the edge of the tread and the rim of the wheel.
  • sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
  • sideways — with a side foremost.
  • sidewind — to move like a sidewinder.
  • sidewise — sideways
  • siliwood — (jargon)   (Or "Hollywired") The coming convergence of film, interactive TV and computers.
  • silkweed — any milkweed, the pods of which contain a silky down.
  • sit down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
  • sit-down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
  • skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
  • slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
  • slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
  • snowbird — junco.
  • swadeshi — a political movement in British India that encouraged domestic production and the boycott of foreign, especially British, goods as a step toward home rule.
  • swanndri — an all-weather heavy woollen shirt
  • swindled — (of a gem) cut so as to retain the maximum weight of the original stone or to give a false impression of size, especially by having the table too large.
  • swindler — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
  • switched — a hairpiece consisting of a bunch or tress of long hair or some substitute, fastened together at one end and worn by women to supplement their own hair.
  • swiveled — a fastening device that allows the thing fastened to turn around freely upon it, especially to turn in a full circle.
  • swizzled — a tall drink, originating in Barbados, composed of full-flavored West Indian rum, lime juice, crushed ice, and sugar: typically served with a swizzle stick.
  • tailwind — a wind coming from directly behind a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to headwind).
  • the wild — a free natural state of living
  • thindown — a reduction in the number of particles, esp protons, of very high energy reaching and penetrating the earth's atmosphere from outer space
  • tidewave — the swell of the earth's water levels as the tide moves
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