8-letter words containing l, o, w
- dog wolf — a male wolf
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowelled — Simple past tense and past participle of dowel.
- down low — of or pertaining to men who secretly or discreetly have sex with other men: She once dated a down-low guy.
- down-low — of or pertaining to men who secretly or discreetly have sex with other men: She once dated a down-low guy.
- downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
- downflow — something that flows downwards
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- downhill — down the slope of a hill; downward.
- downhold — the act of keeping spending, expenses, losses, inflation, etc., as low as possible or advisable.
- downhole — a hole dug or drilled downward, as in a mine or a petroleum or gas well.
- downland — An area of rolling downs, often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone.
- downless — the soft, first plumage of many young birds.
- downlike — having the quality or characteristics of feathers or down
- downline — Alternative spelling of down line.
- downlink — a transmission path for data or other signals from a communications satellite or airborne platform to an earth station.
- download — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drowsily — half-asleep; sleepy.
- dustbowl — An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.
- dwell on — to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
- eelworms — Plural form of eelworm.
- elbowing — Present participle of elbow.
- enflower — to decorate with flowers
- enwallow — to plunge or roll around in
- fallower — A person or machine that fallows, a reaper or plowman.
- fellowly — sociable or friendly.
- fishbowl — a glass bowl for goldfish, snails, etc.
- flatwork — sheets, tablecloths, etc., that are ordinarily ironed mechanically, as on a mangle, rather than by hand.
- flatworm — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having bilateral symmetry and a soft, solid, usually flattened body, including the planarians, tapeworms, and trematodes; platyhelminth.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- floodway — the channel and adjacent shore areas under water during a flood, especially as determined for a flood of a given height.
- flowable — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- flowered — having flowers.
- flowerer — a plant that flowers at a specific time or in a certain manner.
- floweret — a small flower; floret.
- flowless — Without flow.
- flowrate — The flowrate is the speed at which fluid in a pipe moves, or the speed at which it moves from a reservoir into a wellbore.
- fluework — the flue stops of an organ collectively
- flyblown — covered with flyblows: flyblown meat.
- flyblows — the eggs or young larvae of a blowfly, deposited on meat, paper, etc
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- followed — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- follower — a person or thing that follows.
- followup — the act of following.
- footwall — Mining. the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare hanging wall (def 1).