8-letter words containing d, o, w, s
- fidonews — (messaging, history) The weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet, also known as "'Snooz". As the editorial policy of Fidonews was "anything that arrives, we print", there were often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend to elicit flamage in subsequent issues.
- foodways — the customs and traditions relating to food and its preparation
- forwards — forward.
- frowsted — Simple past tense and past participle of frowst.
- godowsky — Leopold, 1870–1938, U.S. composer and pianist, born in Poland.
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- hoedowns — Plural form of hoedown.
- keywords — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- letdowns — Plural form of letdown.
- logwoods — Plural form of logwood.
- lowlands — land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- mixdowns — Plural form of mixdown.
- nowadays — at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
- old west — the western region of the U.S., especially in the frontier period of the 19th century.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- 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.
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- 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.
- rowdyish — like or characteristic of a rowdy.
- rowdyism — rough, disorderly behavior.
- 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.
- sasswood — a tropical African tree, Erythrophleum suavolens, of the legume family, having a poisonous bark and hard, durable wood.
- saw wood — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- 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.
- show day — (in Australia) a public holiday in a state on the date of its annual agricultural and industrial show
- showdown — the laying down of one's cards, face upward, in a card game, especially poker.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- shutdown — a shutting down, as of a factory, school, or machine; a termination or suspension of operations, services, or business activity: a partial government shutdown; an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
- sideshow — a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
- siliwood — (jargon) (Or "Hollywired") The coming convergence of film, interactive TV and computers.
- 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.
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- slowdown — a slowing down or delay in progress, action, etc.
- snow day — a day on which public schools or other institutions are closed due to heavy snow.
- snowbird — junco.
- snowdome — a leisure centre with facilities for skiing, skating, etc
- snowdrop — any of several early-blooming bulbous plants belonging to the genus Galanthus, of the amaryllis family, native to Eurasia, especially G. nivalis, having drooping white flowers with green markings.
- snowland — an area that is covered by snow
- snowmold — a fungus disease of grasses and grains, appearing in lawns as gray patches near the edge of melting snow
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.