8-letter words containing w, d, o, a
- walloped — to beat soundly; thrash.
- wallowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wallow.
- wanderoo — any of several purple-faced langurs, of Sri Lanka.
- wantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of wanton.
- wanwordy — without merit
- war bond — debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war
- ward off — a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
- wardcorn — a payment of corn in the feudal law system
- wardmote — (historical) A meeting of the inhabitants of a ward.
- wardrobe — a stock of clothes or costumes, as of a person or of a theatrical company.
- wardroom — the area serving as the living quarters for all commissioned officers except the commanding officer.
- warlords — Plural form of warlord.
- washdown — the act or process of washing down, as in cleaning something completely.
- watchdog — a dog kept to guard property.
- waterdog — any of several large salamanders, as a mudpuppy or hellbender.
- wayboard — a thin geological seam separating larger strata
- weaponed — Armed with a weapon.
- webboard — an internet site where users can post messages, tutorials, information, and topics for discussion
- widowman — a widower
- wild oat — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wood ant — a reddish-brown European ant, Formica rufa, typically living in anthills in woodlands
- wood ear — tree ear
- wood rat — pack rat (def 1).
- wood ray — xylem ray.
- wood tar — a dark viscid product obtained from wood by distillation or by slow burning without flame, used in its natural state to preserve timber, rope, etc., or subjected to further distillation to yield creosote, oils, and a final residuum, wood pitch.
- woodchat — Also, woodchat shrike. a shrike, Lanius senator, of Europe and northern Africa, having a black forehead and a chestnut crown, nape, and mantle.
- woodland — a city in N central California.
- woodlark — a small, European songbird, Lullula arborea, noted for its song in flight.
- woodmeal — a type of flour, resembling sawdust, made from the root of the cassava plant
- woodsman — Also, woodman. a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.
- woodward — C(omer) Vann, 1908–99, U.S. historian.
- woodwasp — Any of various unrelated insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.
- woodyard — A yard where wood is chopped or stored.
- woolward — with the woollen side touching the skin
- word-art — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- wordages — Plural form of wordage.
- wordmark — (marketing) A logotype; a standardized graphic representation of the name of a company or product used for purposes of easy identification. It is is often text with unique typographic treatments. Usually the company name is incorporated together with simple graphic treatments, so that the representation of the word essentially becomes a symbol of the company.
- wordplay — clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit.
- workaday — of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.
- workload — the amount of work that a machine, employee, or group of employees can be or is expected to perform.
- yardwork — (North America) Work done in maintaining a lawn, and related landscaping activities.