8-letter words containing o, a, r, w
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- markdown — a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
- 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.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- motorway — an expressway.
- 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)
- nanowire — A nanoscale rod made of semiconducting material, used in miniature transistors and some laser applications.
- narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
- narrower — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- narrowly — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- oral law — the traditional body of religious law believed to have been revealed to Moses as an interpretation of the Torah and passed on orally until it was codified and recorded, principally in the Mishna and Gemara
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- ovenware — heat-resistant dishes of glass, pottery, etc., for baking and serving food; bakeware.
- overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
- overawes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overawe.
- overdraw — to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
- oversway — to overrule
- overwarm — to make too warm
- overwary — excessively wary
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- overweak — too weak
- overwear — to use or wear excessively; wear out; exhaust; tax: needlessly overwearing her best workers; phrases overworn by repetition.
- overwrap — to cover with a wrapping
- partwork — series of magazines issued at weekly or monthly intervals, which are designed to be bound together to form a complete course or book
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- poor law — a law or system of laws providing for the relief or support of the poor at public expense.
- post-war — following a major conflict
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- 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.
- rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- rollaway — designed to be rolled out of the way or out of sight when not in use: rollaway bed.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.