8-letter words containing r, e, w, o
- forepaws — Plural form of forepaw.
- foreshow — to show beforehand.
- forewall — The foremost outer wall of a fortification.
- foreward — (obsolete) An advance group; the vanguard.
- 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.
- forewish — (transitive) To wish or desire beforehand.
- foreword — a short introductory statement in a published work, as a book, especially when written by someone other than the author.
- foreworn — forworn.
- forswear — to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
- forswore — Simple past form of foreswear.
- forwaste — to waste completely
- forweary — to exhaust
- 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.
- fretwork — ornamental work consisting of interlacing parts, especially work in which the design is formed by perforation.
- frowsted — Simple past tense and past participle of frowst.
- frowster — a person who enjoys being in a hot and stale atmosphere
- fumewort — Any of various plants of the subfamily Fumarioideae or family Fumariaceae.
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.
- furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- furrower — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- glowered — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- grewsome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- grey owl — Grey Owl, original name Archibald Belaney (1888–1938). Canadian writer and conservationist, born in England; adopted Native American identity
- 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.
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- growlers — Plural form of growler.
- growlery — a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured
- harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
- harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
- harrower — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- heelwork — the training of a dog to heel or perform maneuvers while heeling.
- hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
- hollower — Comparative form of hollow.
- 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.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- horseway — a bridleway
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.