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8-letter words containing w, a, l, o

  • low mass — a Mass that is said, and not sung, by the celebrant, who is assisted by one server, and which has less ceremonial form than a High Mass, using no music or choir.
  • low road — a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.
  • low-ball — Cards. a game of draw poker in which the player having the lowest-ranking hand wins the pot.
  • low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
  • low-paid — job: poorly remunerated
  • low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
  • lowlands — land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
  • male cow — a bull.
  • maltworm — a heavy drinker
  • mealworm — the larva of any of several darkling beetles of the genus Tenebrio, which infests granaries and is used as food for birds and animals.
  • moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • moonwalk — an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon.
  • mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
  • narrowly — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
  • oak lawn — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • oak wilt — a disease of oaks, characterized by wilting and discoloration of the leaves and defoliation, usually starting at and spreading from the top of the tree and the ends of the branches, caused by a fungus, Chalara quercina.
  • obwalden — one of the two divisions of the canton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 189 sq. mi. (490 sq. km). Capital: Sarnen.
  • oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
  • onwardly — moving forward; advancing
  • oral law — the traditional body of religious law believed to have been revealed to Moses as an interpretation of the Torah and passed on orally until it was codified and recorded, principally in the Mishna and Gemara
  • outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
  • outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
  • outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
  • outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
  • own goal — In sport, if someone scores an own goal, they accidentally score a goal for the team they are playing against.
  • playdown — a play-off.
  • plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
  • poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
  • poor law — a law or system of laws providing for the relief or support of the poor at public expense.
  • rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
  • rollaway — designed to be rolled out of the way or out of sight when not in use: rollaway bed.
  • ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
  • rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
  • royal we — we (def 5).
  • saltwork — place where salt is refined
  • saltwort — any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
  • schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
  • scofflaw — a person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.
  • sea wolf — any of several large, voracious, marine fishes, as the wolffish or sea bass.
  • shallows — The shallows are the shallow part of an area of water.
  • showable — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
  • snowball — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
  • snowfall — a fall of snow.
  • snowland — an area that is covered by snow
  • stowable — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
  • toleware — articles made of tole.
  • towardly — apt to learn; promising.
  • townhall — a hall or building belonging to a town, used for the transaction of the town's business and often also as a place of public assembly.
  • townland — a division of land of various sizes
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