8-letter words containing w, a, r
- low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- makework — Alternative form of make-work.
- maltworm — a heavy drinker
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- manswear — (transitive, UK dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
- mansworn — Past participle of manswear.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- mar-hawk — a falconer who trains or handles the birds badly.
- markdown — a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- 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.
- meatware — Less common synonym for wetware.
- menswear — men's wear.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- misaward — to award wrongly
- misdrawn — 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).
- moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- motorway — an expressway.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- nanowire — A nanoscale rod made of semiconducting material, used in miniature transistors and some laser applications.
- narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
- narrower — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- 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.
- nasarawa — a state of Nigeria, in the centre east of Abuja. Capital: Lafia. Pop: 1 863 275(2006). Area: 27 117 sq km (10 470 sq miles)
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- new ager — a believer in New Age
- new year — New Year's Day.
- newwaver — a member of a new wave
- 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.
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- ovenware — heat-resistant dishes of glass, pottery, etc., for baking and serving food; bakeware.
- overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
- overawes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overawe.
- overdraw — to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
- oversway — to overrule
- overwarm — to make too warm