8-letter words containing l, o, w, e, r
- overblew — Simple past form of overblow.
- overblow — to give excessive importance or value to: to overblow one's own writing.
- overflow — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overlewd — too lewd
- overslow — too slow
- overwily — too crafty
- owerloup — an encroachment
- pilework — construction built from heavy stakes or cylinders
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
- rebellow — to re-echo loudly
- 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
- rockwell — Norman, 1894–1978, U.S. illustrator.
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- rosebowl — a decorative bowl for displaying roses
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- roweling — a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- royal we — we (def 5).
- rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
- telework — to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office by the use of home computers, telephones, etc
- toleware — articles made of tole.
- walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- walloper — to beat soundly; thrash.
- wallower — a person or thing that wallows.
- waterlog — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- waterloo — a village in central Belgium, south of Brussels: Napoleon decisively defeated here on June 18, 1815.
- welcomer — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- wellbore — A wellbore is a hole drilled in the ground in order to look for or extract natural resources such as oil and gas.
- wellborn — born of a good, noble, or highly esteemed family.
- welldoer — a moral person; someone who does good
- werelion — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between lion and human form.
- 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.
- willower — a person or a thing that willows.
- wonderly — (obsolete) Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.
- woodlore — the knowledge or wisdom of the woods; woodcraft skills
- woollier — Comparative form of woolly.
- wordless — speechless, silent, or mute.
- wordlore — the study of words and their use; philology
- workable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- workless — Having no work: unemployed.
- wormhole — a hole made by a burrowing or gnawing worm, as in timber, nuts, etc.
- wormlike — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
- yellower — a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.