8-letter words containing w, e, a, r
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- jawboner — a person who jawbones
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- lawmaker — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- lawyerly — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- liveware — /li:v'weir/ 1. A less common synonym for wetware 2. (Cambridge) Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad."
- low gear — the arrangement of gears providing little speed but great torque
- low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- makework — Alternative form of make-work.
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- manswear — (transitive, UK dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- mealworm — the larva of any of several darkling beetles of the genus Tenebrio, which infests granaries and is used as food for birds and animals.
- meatware — Less common synonym for wetware.
- menswear — men's wear.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- nanowire — A nanoscale rod made of semiconducting material, used in miniature transistors and some laser applications.
- narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
- narrower — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- new ager — a believer in New Age
- new year — New Year's Day.
- newwaver — a member of a new wave
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- ovenware — heat-resistant dishes of glass, pottery, etc., for baking and serving food; bakeware.
- overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
- overawes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overawe.
- 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.
- oversway — to overrule
- overwarm — to make too warm
- overwary — excessively wary
- overwash — the act of washing over something