8-letter words containing m, o, w
- glowworm — the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
- gownsman — a person who wears a gown indicating office, profession, or status.
- grewsome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- gromwell — any of various often hairy plants of the genus Lithospermum, of the borage family, usually bearing white or yellowish flowers and smooth, white, stony nutlets.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- gunwoman — A female gunman.
- gunwomen — Plural form of gunwoman.
- hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
- home row — (in touch typing) the row on a typewriter or computer keyboard that contains the keys (home keys) to which four fingers of each hand return as a base, on a QWERTY keyboard being A, S, D, and F for the left hand and J, K, L, and the semicolon for the right.
- homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- homewood — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
- homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
- hookworm — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- hornworm — the larva of any of several hawk moths, having a hornlike process at the rear of the abdomen.
- how come — in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
- imbowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbower.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- iwo jima — one of the Volcano Islands, in the N Pacific, S of Japan: under U.S. administration after 1945; returned to Japan 1968.
- jim crow — racial segregation
- jim-crow — favoring or supporting Jim Crow.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- laywoman — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- limewood — the wood of a linden.
- lindworm — a wingless, two-legged dragon
- lobworms — Plural form of lobworm.
- low beam — an automobile headlight beam providing short-range illumination of a road and intended chiefly for use in driving on the streets of cities, towns, etc.
- low mass — a Mass that is said, and not sung, by the celebrant, who is assisted by one server, and which has less ceremonial form than a High Mass, using no music or choir.
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- madwoman — a woman who is or behaves as if insane.
- madwomen — Plural form of madwoman.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- makework — Alternative form of make-work.
- male cow — a bull.
- maltworm — a heavy drinker
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- mansworn — Past participle of manswear.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- markdown — a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
- mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
- mcdowell — Ephraim, 1771–1830, U.S. surgeon.
- mealworm — the larva of any of several darkling beetles of the genus Tenebrio, which infests granaries and is used as food for birds and animals.
- mellowed — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- mellower — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- mellowly — In a mellow manner.