8-letter words containing w, a, r
- overwary — excessively wary
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- 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.
- parawing — paraglider.
- parkward — towards a park
- part way — Part way means part of the way or partly.
- part-way — at or to a part of the way or distance: Shall I walk you partway? I'm already partway home.
- partwork — series of magazines issued at weekly or monthly intervals, which are designed to be bound together to form a complete course or book
- passw0rd — (security) A common default password, often given out by system administrtors to new users, the hope being that they will change it immediately.
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- 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
- poor law — a law or system of laws providing for the relief or support of the poor at public expense.
- post-war — following a major conflict
- 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).
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- rack saw — a wide-toothed saw
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- rag week — students' annual charity fundraiser
- ragwheel — a chain or sprocket wheel
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- rainwear — waterproof or water-repellent clothing.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- raw data — data
- raw deal — unjust treatment
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk
- 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.
- raw silk — reeled silk that has not had the sericin removed.
- rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
- rawlings — Marjorie Kinnan [ki-nan] /kɪˈnæn/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, U.S. novelist and journalist.
- rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
- rawmaish — foolish or exaggerated talk; nonsense
- 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