8-letter words containing d, o, w, s
- softwood — any wood that is relatively soft or easily cut.
- sorrowed — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sourwood — sorrel tree.
- 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
- stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
- stowdown — the packing of or stowing in a ship's hold
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- subworld — in literary theory, a world 'created' by a character within a text world or fiction, for example through a flashback or reminiscence on the part of the character; the subworld is subordinate to but not part of the text world
- swelldom — fashionable society
- swordman — swordsman.
- swounded — swoon.
- townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- unshadow — to remove a shadow from
- unstowed — to remove (tools, utensils, equipment, etc.) from stowage, especially in preparation for use.
- unwisdom — lack of wisdom; folly; rashness; recklessness: an act of unwisdom.
- warlords — Plural form of warlord.
- washdown — the act or process of washing down, as in cleaning something completely.
- webisode — a short, original video that is initially viewed on a website and is promotional or informational in content: The TV show will premiere a series of webisodes this summer.
- wedlocks — Plural form of wedlock.
- weirdoes — Plural form of weirdo.
- westford — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- westwood — a city in E Massachusetts.
- whooshed — Simple past tense and past participle of whoosh.
- widgeons — Plural form of widgeon.
- widowers — Plural form of widower.
- windrose — Alternative spelling of wind rose.
- windrows — Plural form of windrow.
- windsock — a tapered, tubular cloth vane, open at both ends and having at the larger end a fixed ring pivoted to swing freely, installed at airports or elsewhere to indicate wind direction and approximate intensity.
- wisedome — Obsolete spelling of wisdom.
- wondrous — wonderful; remarkable.
- woodcuts — Plural form of woodcut.
- woodlots — Plural form of woodlot.
- woodness — insanity, madness, or fury
- woodrush — A grasslike plant that typically has long flat leaves fringed with long hairs.
- woodshed — a shed for storing wood for fuel.
- woodshop — A woodworking workshop.
- woodskin — a canoe made of bark, used by the native tribes of Guyana
- woodsman — Also, woodman. a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.
- woodsmen — Plural form of woodsman.
- woodwasp — Any of various unrelated insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.
- woodwose — a hairy wildman of the woods
- woolshed — a building in which sheep are sheared and wool is gathered and prepared for market.
- wordages — Plural form of wordage.
- wordiest — Superlative form of wordy.
- wordings — Plural form of wording.
- wordless — speechless, silent, or mute.
- wordlist — A written collection of all words derived from a particular source, or sharing some other characteristic.
- wordship — Lb rare The state, condition, or status of a word.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.