8-letter words containing f, o, r, w
- forswatt — sweat-covered
- forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
- forswink — to exhaust through toil
- forswore — Simple past form of foreswear.
- forsworn — past participle of forswear.
- forswunk — overworked
- forwards — forward.
- forwaste — to waste completely
- forweary — to exhaust
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.
- freetown — an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Capital: Freetown.
- fretwork — ornamental work consisting of interlacing parts, especially work in which the design is formed by perforation.
- frown on — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- frowning — Present participle of frown.
- frowsted — Simple past tense and past participle of frowst.
- frowster — a person who enjoys being in a hot and stale atmosphere
- frowzily — in a frowzy or unkempt manner
- fumewort — Any of various plants of the subfamily Fumarioideae or family Fumariaceae.
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- furrower — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- fuzzword — A term that is deliberately vague or euphemistic in meaning.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- how far? — to what extent, distance, or degree?
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- lifework — the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.
- moorfowl — the red grouse.
- outfrown — to outdo in frowning; silence, abash, or subdue by frowning.
- overflow — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- 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.
- reflower — to flower again
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- two-four — a box containing 24 bottles of beer
- ward off — a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
- warn off — If you warn someone off, you tell them to go away or to stop doing something because of possible danger or punishment.
- waveform — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- wear off — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- werewolf — (in folklore and superstition) a human being who has changed into a wolf, or is capable of assuming the form of a wolf, while retaining human intelligence.
- westford — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- wetproof — waterproof.
- what for — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- wherefor — (dated) alternative spelling of wherefore.
- woodfern — An evergreen fern with leathery dark-green fronds.
- woodfree — (of high-quality paper) made from pulp that has been treated chemically, removing impurities
- woodroof — A small, sweet-smelling herb, Galium odoratum, once used for flavouring wine.
- woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.