8-letter words containing w, d, o
- glenwood — a town in SW Iowa.
- glowered — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- goatweed — a plant of the genus Capraria
- godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- godowsky — Leopold, 1870–1938, U.S. composer and pianist, born in Poland.
- goldwork — work produced by a goldsmith.
- gondwana — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
- goodwife — Chiefly Scot. the mistress of a household.
- goodwill — friendly disposition; benevolence; kindness.
- goodwood — an area in SE England, in Sussex: site of a famous racecourse and of Goodwood House, built 1780–1800
- gottwald — Klement [kle-ment] /ˈklɛ mɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, Czech Communist leader: prime minister 1946–48; president 1948–53.
- goutweed — a fast-spreading weed, Aegopodium podagraria, of the parsley family, native to Eurasia, having umbels of white flowers.
- gridwork — Work in the form of a grid.
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- gun down — shoot dead
- hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.
- harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
- harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- hoedowns — Plural form of hoedown.
- hog wild — highly excited; without moderation or restraint
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- hog-wild — wildly or intemperately enthusiastic or excited.
- holddown — a clamp for holding a metal piece, as a sheet being deep-drawn, to prevent distortion or movement.
- hollowed — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homewood — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
- honeydew — honeydew melon.
- hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
- hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- howdunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
- i wonder — You can say 'I wonder' if you want to be very polite when you are asking someone to do something, or when you are asking them for their opinion or for information.
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- in-world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- ironweed — any of certain North American composite plants of the genus Vernonia, having tubular, chiefly purple or red disk flowers.
- ironwood — any of various trees yielding a hard, heavy wood, as the American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana, or Lyonothamnus floribundus, found on the islands off the coast of S California.
- jawboned — Simple past tense and past participle of jawbone.
- jew down — one of a scattered group of people that traces its descent from the Biblical Hebrews or from postexilic adherents of Judaism; Israelite.
- kentwood — a city in W Michigan.
- key-word — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- keywords — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.