8-letter words containing w, a, r, l
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- half-raw — (of meat) only partially cooked
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- hardwall — a type of gypsum plaster used as a basecoat.
- hellward — towards hell
- holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- kirkwall — a town on Pomona island, NE of Scotland in the Orkney Islands: administrative center of the Orkney Islands.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- landward — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- lawmaker — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- lawyerly — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- 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.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- liveware — /li:v'weir/ 1. A less common synonym for wetware 2. (Cambridge) Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad."
- 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.
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- low road — a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- 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.
- narrowly — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- narwhals — Plural form of narwhal.
- 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
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- playwear — playclothes.
- 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.
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- ragwheel — a chain or sprocket wheel
- raw deal — unjust treatment
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk