8-letter words containing r, e, w, o
- powering — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- powerset — (mathematics) The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
- preowned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
- 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.
- re-endow — to endow again
- rebellow — to re-echo loudly
- reborrow — to borrow (something, esp money) 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.
- red wolf — a small, reddish-gray American wolf, Canis rufus, similar to the coyote: once abundant in the southeastern U.S., it is now near extinction in the wild.
- red worm — North Central, South Midland, and Southern U.S. an earthworm.
- reflower — to flower again
- regrowth — the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.
- renowned — celebrated; famous.
- renowner — a renown giver; someone who makes another person famous or renowned
- reshower — to shower again
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- rockwell — Norman, 1894–1978, U.S. illustrator.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- rope tow — ski tow.
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- ropework — the activities involved in making, mending, tying, and using ropes
- rosebowl — a decorative bowl for displaying roses
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- rosewood — any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- row over — to win a rowing race unopposed, by rowing the course
- roweling — a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- royal we — we (def 5).
- rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- screw-on — attached, connected, or closed by screwing onto another part of a container or receptacle.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- sex work — prostitution.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- sherwood — Robert Emmet [em-it] /ˈɛm ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1955, U.S. dramatist.
- showerer — someone who showers abundantly
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- sorrowed — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sowarree — an Indian mounted escort
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- supercow — a dairy cow that produces a very high milk yield as a result of selective breeding or genetic modification
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- teamwork — cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- telework — to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office by the use of home computers, telephones, etc
- the crow — the constellation Corvus
- the word — the proper or most fitting expression
- timework — work done and paid for by the hour or day.
- timeworn — worn or impaired by time.