8-letter words containing d, o, w, e
- 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.
- overdrew — Simple past form of overdraw.
- overlewd — too lewd
- overwide — too wide
- overwind — to wind beyond the proper limit; wind too far: He must have overwound his watch.
- overword — a word that is repeated, as a refrain in a song.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- peg down — to make (a person) committed to a course of action or bound to follow rules
- pinewood — the wood of a pine.
- pokeweed — a tall herb, Phytolacca americana, of North America, having juicy purple berries and a purple root used in medicine, and young edible shoots resembling asparagus.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pondweed — any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, most species of which grow in ponds and quiet streams.
- powdered — finely granulated
- preowned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
- 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.
- re-endow — to endow again
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- red wolf — a small, reddish-gray American wolf, Canis rufus, similar to the coyote: once abundant in the southeastern U.S., it is now near extinction in the wild.
- red worm — North Central, South Midland, and Southern U.S. an earthworm.
- renowned — celebrated; famous.
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- rosewood — any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
- set down — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shadowed — of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- sherwood — Robert Emmet [em-it] /ˈɛm ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1955, U.S. dramatist.
- sideshow — a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
- snowdome — a leisure centre with facilities for skiing, skating, etc
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
- sorrowed — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
- swelldom — fashionable society
- swounded — swoon.
- takedown — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- teakwood — the wood of the teak.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- the word — the proper or most fitting expression
- tie down — that with which anything is tied.
- tie-down — a device for tying something down.
- townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- unavowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- undertow — the seaward, subsurface flow or draft of water from waves breaking on a beach.
- unplowed — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- unstowed — to remove (tools, utensils, equipment, etc.) from stowage, especially in preparation for use.
- unwonted — not customary or usual; rare: unwonted kindness.
- unwooded — not wooded; lacking woods or trees