8-letter words containing r, w, d
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- goldwork — work produced by a goldsmith.
- gridwork — Work in the form of a grid.
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- gurdwara — a Sikh temple in India.
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- hardwall — a type of gypsum plaster used as a basecoat.
- hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.
- harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
- haridwar — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N India, on the Ganges River: a holy city to Hindus.
- 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.
- headward — In the region or direction of the head.
- headwear — coverings for the head, especially hats.
- 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.
- hellward — towards hell
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- hereward — called Hereward the Wake. 11th-century Anglo-Saxon rebel, who defended the Isle of Ely against William the Conqueror (1070–71): a subject of many legends
- hindward — backward
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- i wonder — You can say 'I wonder' if you want to be very polite when you are asking someone to do something, or when you are asking them for their opinion or for information.
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- in-world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- ironweed — any of certain North American composite plants of the genus Vernonia, having tubular, chiefly purple or red disk flowers.
- ironwood — any of various trees yielding a hard, heavy wood, as the American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana, or Lyonothamnus floribundus, found on the islands off the coast of S California.
- key-word — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- keywords — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- kirkward — towards the church
- kirkwood — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- landward — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lewdster — a lewd person
- lindworm — a wingless, two-legged dragon
- loanword — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.