8-letter words containing w, a, d, e
- mayweeds — Plural form of mayweed.
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
- new deal — the principles of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, especially those advocated under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for economic recovery and social reforms.
- newlands — John Alexander. 1838–98, British chemist: classified the elements in order of their atomic weight, noticing similarities in every eighth and thus discovering his law of octaves
- newslady — A newswoman.
- obwalden — one of the two divisions of the canton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 189 sq. mi. (490 sq. km). Capital: Sarnen.
- outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
- overdraw — to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- pre-draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- predrawn — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- raw deal — unjust treatment
- 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.
- read law — to study to become a lawyer
- rearward — Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.
- 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
- 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.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- sandwell — a unitary authority in central England, in West Midlands. Pop: 285 000 (2003 est). Area: 86 sq km (33 sq miles)
- saw edge — the serrated edge of a saw
- sawblade — the blade of a saw
- 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.
- shadowed — of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shadwell — Thomas, 1642?–92, English dramatist: poet laureate 1688–92.
- side-way — a byway.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewall — the part of a pneumatic tire between the edge of the tread and the rim of the wheel.
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- skewbald — (especially of horses) having patches of brown and white.
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- speedway — a town in central Indiana.
- sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- squawked — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- swaddler — a blanket in which to swaddle a baby