8-letter words containing e, d, w
- 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.
- 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.
- redrawer — a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- redwater — a disease of cattle caused by the protozoan Babesia (or Piroplasma) bovis, which destroys the red blood cells, characterized by the passage of red or blackish urine. It is transmitted by tick bites
- renowned — celebrated; famous.
- rereward — rearward (defs 2, 3).
- rewarded — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewarder — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewinded — an act or instance of rewinding.
- richweed — clearweed.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- 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.
- sandwell — a unitary authority in central England, in West Midlands. Pop: 285 000 (2003 est). Area: 86 sq km (33 sq miles)
- saw edge — the serrated edge of a saw
- sawblade — the blade of a saw
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- seawards — Also, seawards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
- sedgwick — Ellery, 1872–1960, U.S. journalist and editor.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- 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
- 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.
- shadwell — Thomas, 1642?–92, English dramatist: poet laureate 1688–92.
- sherwood — Robert Emmet [em-it] /ˈɛm ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1955, U.S. dramatist.
- shrewder — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrewdie — a shrewd person
- shrewdly — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- 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
- silkweed — any milkweed, the pods of which contain a silky down.
- skewbald — (especially of horses) having patches of brown and white.
- skewered — a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- 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.