8-letter words containing r, o, t, w
- westford — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- westport — a town in SW Connecticut.
- westwork — (in German Romanesque architecture) a monumental western front to a church, treated as a tower or towers containing an entrance and vestibule below and a chapel above.
- wet room — a type of water-proofed room with a drain in the floor often serving as an open-plan shower
- wetproof — waterproof.
- what for — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whereout — out of which
- winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- witherod — a N American deciduous shrub, Viburnum nudum, of the honeysuckle family
- wood rat — pack rat (def 1).
- wood tar — a dark viscid product obtained from wood by distillation or by slow burning without flame, used in its natural state to preserve timber, rope, etc., or subjected to further distillation to yield creosote, oils, and a final residuum, wood pitch.
- word-art — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- wordiest — Superlative form of wordy.
- wordlist — A written collection of all words derived from a particular source, or sharing some other characteristic.
- wordtech — (company) Manufacturers of Quicksilver. Address: Orinda, CA, USA.
- wore out — worn-out.
- wore-out — worn-out.
- work out — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- workboat — a boat used for work or trade rather than sport, public transportation, or military purposes.
- workmate — A person with whom one works.
- workouts — Plural form of workout.
- worksite — a location used for work, especially construction or manual labor: industrial worksites; tobacco-free worksites.
- worktops — Plural form of worktop.
- wormcast — A small pile of sand or soil, the end product of the breakdown of organic matter by an earthworm.
- wormroot — any of various plants used to cure infestation by worms
- worn out — worn or used beyond repair.
- worn-out — worn or used beyond repair.
- worrited — Simple past tense and past participle of worrit.
- worsteds — Plural form of worsted.
- worstest — (nonstandard) Worst.
- worsting — Present participle of worst.
- worthful — full of worth or merit.
- worthied — Simple past tense and past participle of worthy.
- worthier — Comparative form of worthy.
- worthies — Plural form of worthy.
- worthily — having adequate or great merit, character, or value: a worthy successor.
- worthing — to happen or betide: woe worth the day.
- writeoff — Alternative spelling of write-off.
- wrongest — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- wrymouth — any blennioid fish of the family Stichaeidae, having a large, upturned mouth, especially Cryptacanthodes maculatus, a bottom fish of the Atlantic Ocean.
- yorktown — a village in SE Virginia: surrender (October 19, 1781) of Cornwallis to Washington in the American Revolution.