8-letter words containing w, a, r, e
- overweak — too weak
- overwear — to use or wear excessively; wear out; exhaust; tax: needlessly overwearing her best workers; phrases overworn by repetition.
- overwrap — to cover with a wrapping
- pairwise — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- pear haw — a shrub or small tree, Crataegus uniflora, of the eastern and southern coastal areas of the U.S., having pear-shaped, orange-red fruit.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- playwear — playclothes.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- 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).
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- rag week — students' annual charity fundraiser
- ragwheel — a chain or sprocket wheel
- rainwear — waterproof or water-repellent clothing.
- 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.
- re-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- read law — to study to become a lawyer
- rearward — Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.
- reawaken — rouse or arouse again
- 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).
- reviewal — the act of reviewing.
- 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.
- rexxware — An implementation of REXX for Novell NetWare produced by Simware, Inc. in January 1994. It is used by LAN managers to automate LAN administration chores on a Novell NetWare server. As a scripting language, REXXWARE is an NLM (NetWare Loadable Module) that runs on Novell NetWare servers. It includes more than 275 NetWare-specific functions, plus the standard REXX keywords, instructions, built-in functions, flow-control, tracing, and error trapping and recovery features. REXXWARE is certified by Novell for use with NetWare. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- riverway — the part of a river that boats can travel on, or the route or course of a river
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- royal we — we (def 5).
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawler — a person who scrawls.
- screwage — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- seawards — Also, seawards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
- seawater — the salt water in or from the sea.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- sewerage — the removal of waste water and refuse by means of sewers.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.