8-letter words containing w, a, l, o
- flatworm — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having bilateral symmetry and a soft, solid, usually flattened body, including the planarians, tapeworms, and trematodes; platyhelminth.
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- floodway — the channel and adjacent shore areas under water during a flood, especially as determined for a flood of a given height.
- flowable — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- flowrate — The flowrate is the speed at which fluid in a pipe moves, or the speed at which it moves from a reservoir into a wellbore.
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- footwall — Mining. the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare hanging wall (def 1).
- forewall — The foremost outer wall of a fortification.
- fowliang — Older Spelling. former name of Jingdezhen.
- galloway — a historic region in SW Scotland.
- gamefowl — A gamebird.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- glowlamp — An aphlogistic lamp.
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- gottwald — Klement [kle-ment] /ˈklɛ mɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, Czech Communist leader: prime minister 1946–48; president 1948–53.
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
- hawk owl — a gray and white diurnal owl, Surnia ulula, of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, resembling a hawk in appearance and actions.
- hole saw — crown saw.
- holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
- john law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- kilowatt — a unit of power, equal to 1000 watts. Abbreviation: kW, kw.
- know-all — a know-it-all.
- knowable — capable of being known.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lakewood — a city in central Colorado, near Denver.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- latewood — Wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- laywoman — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- 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.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- 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.
- lock-jaw — tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.
- lockaway — an investment intended to be held for a relatively long time
- longwall — noting or pertaining to a means of extracting coal or other minerals in an underground mine from a continuous face, the roof before the face being supported at intervals by temporary or movable artificial supports. Compare room-and-pillar.
- longwave — (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
- longways — longwise.
- low beam — an automobile headlight beam providing short-range illumination of a road and intended chiefly for use in driving on the streets of cities, towns, etc.
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque