8-letter words containing m, o, w
- meltdown — network meltdown
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- merwomen — Plural form of merwoman.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- milk cow — a cow that is raised for its milk rather than for beef.
- milkwood — any of various trees having a milky juice, as Pseudomedia spuria, of Jamaica.
- milkwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the secretion of milk.
- millwork — ready-made carpentry work from a mill.
- misknown — Past participle of misknow.
- misknows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misknow.
- misthrow — (transitive) To throw incorrectly.
- miswrote — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- mixdowns — Plural form of mixdown.
- mol. wt. — molecular weight
- moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- monobrow — a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them: He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.
- moonglow — Moonlight.
- moonwalk — an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon.
- moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
- moonwise — (nonstandard) Anticlockwise.
- moonwort — any fern of the genus Botrychium, especially B. lunaria, a rare fern having fronds with crescent-shaped leaflets.
- moorfowl — the red grouse.
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- morwongs — Plural form of morwong.
- mostwhat — most
- motorway — an expressway.
- mouthbow — Musical bow.
- mow down — to cut down (grass, grain, etc.) with a scythe or a machine.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- my word! — an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc
- new moon — the moon either when in conjunction with the sun or soon after, being either invisible or visible only as a slender crescent.
- new-mown — recently mown or cut: the refreshing smell of new-mown hay.
- newcombe — John (David). born 1944, Australian tennis player; winner of seven Grand Slam singles titles (1967–75), including three at Wimbledon (1967, 1970, 1971)
- newcomen — Thomas, 1663–1729, English inventor.
- newcomer — a person or thing that has recently arrived; new arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising.
- newsroom — a room in the offices of a newspaper, news service, or broadcasting organization in which the news is processed.
- oswiecim — Polish name of Auschwitz.
- out-swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- outswims — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswim.
- overswim — to swim across
- overwarm — to make too warm
- owrecome — the chorus of a song
- penwoman — a female writer
- pillworm — a type of millipede that can roll itself up into a ball
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- pow camp — Prisoner of War camp: a place where soldiers who have been captured by their enemy during a war are kept as prisoners until the end of the war
- raw mode — (operating system) A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Systems that make this distinction for a disk file are generally regarded as broken. Compare rare mode, cooked mode.