8-letter words containing n, o, w
- eniwetok — an atoll in the W Pacific Ocean, in the NW Marshall Islands: taken by the US from Japan in 1944; became a naval base and later a testing ground for atomic weapons. Pop: 820 (1999 est)
- enwallow — to plunge or roll around in
- facedown — with the face or the front or upper surface downward: He was lying facedown on the floor. Deal the cards facedown on the table.
- fan worm — feather-duster worm.
- fencerow — the uncultivated land on each side of and below a fence.
- fidonews — (messaging, history) The weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet, also known as "'Snooz". As the editorial policy of Fidonews was "anything that arrives, we print", there were often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend to elicit flamage in subsequent issues.
- flyblown — covered with flyblows: flyblown meat.
- footworn — worn down by the feet: a footworn pavement.
- foreknew — Simple past tense and past participle of foreknow.
- foreknow — to know beforehand.
- forewarn — to warn in advance.
- forewent — simple past tense of forego1 .
- forewind — a favourable wind
- forewing — either of the anterior and usually smaller pair of wings of an insect having four wings.
- foreworn — forworn.
- forswink — to exhaust through toil
- forsworn — past participle of forswear.
- forswunk — overworked
- fowliang — Older Spelling. former name of Jingdezhen.
- freetown — an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Capital: Freetown.
- frown on — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- frowning — Present participle of frown.
- get down — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- glenwood — a town in SW Iowa.
- go wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- gondwana — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
- gownsman — a person who wears a gown indicating office, profession, or status.
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- growling — Producing a growl.
- grown-up — having reached the age of maturity.
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- gun down — shoot dead
- gunwoman — A female gunman.
- gunwomen — Plural form of gunwoman.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hangchow — Older Spelling. Hangzhou.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- hawknose — a nose curved like the beak of a hawk.
- hawthorn — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family, typically a small tree with stiff thorns, certain North American species of which have white or pink blossoms and bright-colored fruits and are cultivated in hedges.
- henslowe — Philip, died 1616, English theater manager.
- hoedowns — Plural form of hoedown.
- holddown — a clamp for holding a metal piece, as a sheet being deep-drawn, to prevent distortion or movement.
- hometown — the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- honeydew — honeydew melon.
- hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
- hornwork — A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
- hornworm — the larva of any of several hawk moths, having a hornlike process at the rear of the abdomen.
- hornwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum, found in ponds and slow streams.
- hounslow — a borough of Greater London, England.