8-letter words containing w, a, r, e
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- clayware — pottery
- clearway — a stretch of road on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
- core war — (games) (Or more recently, "Core Wars") A game played between assembly code programs running in the core of a simulated machine (and vicariously by their authors). The objective is to kill your opponents' programs by overwriting them. The programs are written using an instruction set called "Redcode" and run on a virtual machine called "MARS" (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). Core War was devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and Dennis Ritchie in the early 1960s (their original game was called "Darwin" and ran on a PDP-1 at Bell Labs). It was first described in the "Core War Guidelines" of March, 1984 by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario (Canada). Dewdney wrote several "Computer Recreations" articles in "Scientific American" which discussed Core War, starting with the May 1984 article. Those articles are contained in the two anthologies cited below. A.K. Dewdney's articles are still the most readable introduction to Core War, even though the Redcode dialect described in there is no longer current. The International Core War Society (ICWS) creates and maintains Core War standards and the runs Core War tournaments. There have been six annual tournaments and two standards (ICWS'86 and ICWS'88).
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- crabwise — (of motion) sideways; like a crab
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crawlers — a baby's overalls; rompers
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crew cab — A crew cab is a cab in a vehicle such as a fire engine that has been extended with a second row of seats to carry additional crew.
- crewmate — a colleague on the crew of a boat or ship
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cyberwar — The use of computers to disrupt the activities of an enemy country, especially the deliberate attacking of communication systems.
- damewort — Hesperis matronalis, a herbaceous mustard.
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- dark web — the portion of the Internet that is intentionally hidden from search engines, uses masked IP addresses, and is accessible only with a special web browser: part of the deep web.
- dawdlers — Plural form of dawdler.
- deadwork — work necessary to expose an orebody, as the removal of overburden.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- delaware — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living near the Delaware River
- demoware — (computing) A cut-down demonstration version of a computer program so that it can be tried before purchase.
- diredawa — a city in E Ethiopia.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- drawable — 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).
- drawbore — a hole in a tenon made eccentric with the corresponding holes to the mortise so that the two pieces being joined will be forced tightly together when the pin (drawbore pin) is hammered into place.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
- ear worm — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- ear-worm — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- earwiggy — having an infestation or a swarm of earwigs
- earworms — Plural form of earworm.
- earywigs — Plural form of earywig.
- eastward — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- edward i — ("Edward Longshanks") 1239–1307, king of England 1272–1307 (son of Henry III).
- edward v — 1470–83, king of England 1483 (son of Edward IV).
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- entryway — A way in to somewhere or something; an entrance.
- enwreath — Misspelling of enwreathe.
- everyway — (dated) In every way, however possible.
- eyewater — a lotion for the eyes
- faceward — Toward the face.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- fairview — a town in NE New Jersey.