8-letter words containing n, o, w, r
- re-endow — to endow again
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- renowned — celebrated; famous.
- renowner — a renown giver; someone who makes another person famous or renowned
- rig down — Chiefly Nautical. to put in proper order for working or use. to fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with the necessary shrouds, stays, etc. to fit (shrouds, stays, sails, etc.) to the mast, yard, or the like.
- ringwomb — a complication at lambing resulting from failure of the cervix to open
- ringwood — a town in N New Jersey.
- ringwork — a circular earthwork used as a defence and made up of a surrounding bank and ditch
- ringworm — any of a number of contagious skin diseases caused by certain parasitic fungi and characterized by the formation of ring-shaped eruptive patches.
- robstown — a city in S Texas.
- roweling — a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- rub down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- run down — melted or liquefied: run butter.
- run-down — fatigued; weary; exhausted.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- sandwort — any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
- screw-on — attached, connected, or closed by screwing onto another part of a container or receptacle.
- shopworn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- showring — an area where animals are displayed for sale or competition
- snowbird — junco.
- snowdrop — any of several early-blooming bulbous plants belonging to the genus Galanthus, of the amaryllis family, native to Eurasia, especially G. nivalis, having drooping white flowers with green markings.
- spanworm — measuringworm.
- strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
- swordman — swordsman.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- throw in — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- throw on — clothing: put on hastily
- throwing — the act of projecting or casting (something) through the air, esp with a rapid motion of the arm and wrist
- timeworn — worn or impaired by time.
- tinworks — an establishment for the mining or processing of tin or for the making of tinware.
- toilworn — worn by toil: toilworn hands.
- tone row — a series of tones in which no tone is duplicated, and in which the tones generally recur in fixed sequence, with variations in rhythm and pitch, throughout a composition.
- towering — very high or tall; lofty: a towering oak.
- towerman — Railroads. a person who works in a switch tower and, by means of a signal box, directs the movement of trains.
- town car — an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.
- townwear — tailored, usually conservative clothing appropriate for business or other activities in a town or city.
- turndown — that is or may be turned down; folded or doubled down: a turndown collar.
- twinborn — born at the same birth.
- unburrow — to come out of or force out of a burrow
- undertow — the seaward, subsurface flow or draft of water from waves breaking on a beach.
- untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
- unworded — not expressed in words
- unworked — not worked; not used; not exerted
- unwormed — (of animals) not rid of worms
- unworthy — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- waggoner — Alternative spelling of wagoner.
- wagoneer — One who drives a wagon.
- waitrons — Plural form of waitron.
- waldhorn — an organ reed stop