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8-letter words containing r, o, t, w

  • outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
  • outpower — to have more power than or defeat by power
  • outswear — to outdo in swearing.
  • outthrow — to throw out or extend: His arms were outthrown in greeting.
  • outtower — to tower over
  • 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
  • outwhirl — to surpass at whirling
  • outworks — Plural form of outwork.
  • outworld — (in science fiction) an outlying or alien planet.
  • outworth — to be more valuable than
  • outwrest — to pull out or get possession of forcibly; extort
  • outwrite — to write more or better than.
  • partwork — series of magazines issued at weekly or monthly intervals, which are designed to be bound together to form a complete course or book
  • pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
  • pillwort — a small Eurasian water fern, Pilularia globulifera, with globular spore-producing bodies and grasslike leaves
  • pipewort — a perennial plant, Eriocaulon septangulare, of wet places in W Republic of Ireland, the Scottish Hebrides, and the eastern US, having a twisted flower stalk and a greenish-grey scaly flower head: family Eriocaulaceae
  • pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
  • post-war — following a major conflict
  • powerset — (mathematics)   The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
  • rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
  • regrowth — the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.
  • robstown — a city in S Texas.
  • rootworm — the larva of any of several insects, as the cucumber beetle, that feeds on the roots of plants.
  • rope tow — ski tow.
  • roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
  • rot away — decay
  • routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
  • ryotwari — (in India) a system of land tenure in which land taxes are paid to the state
  • saltwork — place where salt is refined
  • saltwort — any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
  • 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.
  • saw-wort — a perennial Old World plant, Serratula tinctoria, having serrated leaves that yield a yellow dye: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
  • seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
  • shitwork — bad work; tedious, badly-paid work
  • soapwort — a plant, Saponaria officinalis, of the pink family, whose leaves are used for cleansing.
  • 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).
  • starwort — any of several chickweeds of the genus Stellaria.
  • stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
  • 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)
  • studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
  • tamworth — a city in E Australia.
  • 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.
  • taskwork — work assigned or imposed as a task.
  • 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
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