8-letter words containing r, w, d
- red wing — (Tantangamini) c1750–c1825, Sioux leader.
- red wire — (jargon, hardware) (IBM) Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire.
- 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.
- redrawer — a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- redwater — a disease of cattle caused by the protozoan Babesia (or Piroplasma) bovis, which destroys the red blood cells, characterized by the passage of red or blackish urine. It is transmitted by tick bites
- renowned — celebrated; famous.
- rereward — rearward (defs 2, 3).
- rewarded — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewarder — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewinded — an act or instance of rewinding.
- richweed — clearweed.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- rig down — Chiefly Nautical. to put in proper order for working or use. to fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with the necessary shrouds, stays, etc. to fit (shrouds, stays, sails, etc.) to the mast, yard, or the like.
- ringwood — a town in N New Jersey.
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- 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.
- rowdydow — a hullabaloo
- rowdyish — like or characteristic of a rowdy.
- rowdyism — rough, disorderly behavior.
- rub down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- run down — melted or liquefied: run butter.
- run wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- run-down — fatigued; weary; exhausted.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- 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.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- seawards — Also, seawards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- 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.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- shrewder — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrewdie — a shrewd person
- shrewdly — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- skewered — a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- snowbird — junco.
- snowdrop — any of several early-blooming bulbous plants belonging to the genus Galanthus, of the amaryllis family, native to Eurasia, especially G. nivalis, having drooping white flowers with green markings.
- sorrowed — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sourwood — sorrel tree.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- 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.
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.