8-letter words containing w, d, o
- neckdown — An angled narrowing of the roadway and widening of the pavement, used as a traffic calming measure.
- newfound — newly found or discovered: newfound friends.
- nonwoody — herbaceous.
- nowadays — at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
- obwalden — one of the two divisions of the canton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 189 sq. mi. (490 sq. km). Capital: Sarnen.
- old west — the western region of the U.S., especially in the frontier period of the 19th century.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- one-down — having conceded an advantage or lead to someone or something
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- out-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- outcrowd — to crowd out or exclude
- outdwell — to last longer than
- outlawed — a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
- 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.
- outworld — (in science fiction) an outlying or alien planet.
- ovenwood — brushwood; deadwood fit only for burning.
- overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
- 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.
- overdrew — Simple past form of overdraw.
- overlewd — too lewd
- overwide — too wide
- overwind — to wind beyond the proper limit; wind too far: He must have overwound his watch.
- overword — a word that is repeated, as a refrain in a song.
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- pandowdy — apple pandowdy.
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- pat-down — an act or instance of passing the hands over the body of a clothed person to detect concealed weapons, drugs, etc.; frisking.
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- peg down — to make (a person) committed to a course of action or bound to follow rules
- pin down — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- pinewood — the wood of a pine.
- playdown — a play-off.
- pokeweed — a tall herb, Phytolacca americana, of North America, having juicy purple berries and a purple root used in medicine, and young edible shoots resembling asparagus.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- pondweed — any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, most species of which grow in ponds and quiet streams.
- porkwood — the wood of a small tree, Pisonia obtusata, native to the United States and Caribbean
- powdered — finely granulated
- preowned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
- pulldown — a mechanism that intermittently advances the film through the film gate of a camera or projector.
- pulpwood — spruce or other soft wood suitable for making paper.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- put down — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- put-down — a landing of an aircraft.
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- 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.
- rawboned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- re-endow — to endow again
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- red wolf — a small, reddish-gray American wolf, Canis rufus, similar to the coyote: once abundant in the southeastern U.S., it is now near extinction in the wild.