8-letter words containing w, d, o
- red worm — North Central, South Midland, and Southern U.S. an earthworm.
- renowned — celebrated; famous.
- rig down — Chiefly Nautical. to put in proper order for working or use. to fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with the necessary shrouds, stays, etc. to fit (shrouds, stays, sails, etc.) to the mast, yard, or the like.
- ringwood — a town in N New Jersey.
- roadshow — travelling entertainment
- roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- rosewood — any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
- rowdydow — a hullabaloo
- rowdyish — like or characteristic of a rowdy.
- rowdyism — rough, disorderly behavior.
- rub down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- run down — melted or liquefied: run butter.
- run-down — fatigued; weary; exhausted.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- sandwort — any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
- sasswood — a tropical African tree, Erythrophleum suavolens, of the legume family, having a poisonous bark and hard, durable wood.
- saw wood — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
- set down — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shadowed — of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- sherwood — Robert Emmet [em-it] /ˈɛm ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1955, U.S. dramatist.
- show day — (in Australia) a public holiday in a state on the date of its annual agricultural and industrial show
- showdown — the laying down of one's cards, face upward, in a card game, especially poker.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- shutdown — a shutting down, as of a factory, school, or machine; a termination or suspension of operations, services, or business activity: a partial government shutdown; an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
- sideshow — a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
- siliwood — (jargon) (Or "Hollywired") The coming convergence of film, interactive TV and computers.
- sit down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
- sit-down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- slowdown — a slowing down or delay in progress, action, etc.
- snow day — a day on which public schools or other institutions are closed due to heavy snow.
- snowbird — junco.
- snowdome — a leisure centre with facilities for skiing, skating, etc
- snowdrop — any of several early-blooming bulbous plants belonging to the genus Galanthus, of the amaryllis family, native to Eurasia, especially G. nivalis, having drooping white flowers with green markings.
- snowland — an area that is covered by snow
- snowmold — a fungus disease of grasses and grains, appearing in lawns as gray patches near the edge of melting snow
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
- softwood — any wood that is relatively soft or easily cut.
- sorrowed — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sourwood — sorrel tree.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
- stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
- stowdown — the packing of or stowing in a ship's hold
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.