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8-letter words containing d, r, o, w

  • hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
  • hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.
  • harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
  • harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
  • headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
  • headwork — mental labor; thought.
  • hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
  • hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
  • homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
  • hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
  • hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
  • i wonder — You can say 'I wonder' if you want to be very polite when you are asking someone to do something, or when you are asking them for their opinion or for information.
  • in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
  • in-world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • ironweed — any of certain North American composite plants of the genus Vernonia, having tubular, chiefly purple or red disk flowers.
  • ironwood — any of various trees yielding a hard, heavy wood, as the American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana, or Lyonothamnus floribundus, found on the islands off the coast of S California.
  • key-word — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
  • keywords — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
  • kirkwood — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • 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.
  • lindworm — a wingless, two-legged dragon
  • 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.
  • longword — (computing) A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (specific number of bits depends upon architecture).
  • low road — a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.
  • lowrider — an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
  • madworts — Plural form of madwort.
  • markdown — a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
  • moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
  • my word! — an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc
  • narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
  • onwardly — moving forward; advancing
  • out-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • outcrowd — to crowd out or exclude
  • 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.
  • outworld — (in science fiction) an outlying or alien planet.
  • 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.
  • password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
  • pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
  • poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
  • porkwood — the wood of a small tree, Pisonia obtusata, native to the United States and Caribbean
  • powdered — finely granulated
  • preowned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
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