8-letter words containing w, e, d, r
- lewdster — a lewd person
- lowrider — an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
- 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.
- miswired — Wired incorrectly.
- narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
- 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.
- pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- powdered — finely granulated
- pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- pre-draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- predrawn — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- preowned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
- prewired — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- raw deal — unjust treatment
- 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
- read law — to study to become a lawyer
- rearward — Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.
- 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 wine — wine having a predominantly red color derived from the skin pigment in the red or other dark-colored grapes used in making it.
- red wing — (Tantangamini) c1750–c1825, Sioux leader.
- red wire — (jargon, hardware) (IBM) Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire.
- 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.
- red worm — North Central, South Midland, and Southern U.S. an earthworm.
- redrawer — a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
- redwater — a disease of cattle caused by the protozoan Babesia (or Piroplasma) bovis, which destroys the red blood cells, characterized by the passage of red or blackish urine. It is transmitted by tick bites
- renowned — celebrated; famous.
- rereward — rearward (defs 2, 3).
- rewarded — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewarder — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewinded — an act or instance of rewinding.
- richweed — clearweed.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- 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.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- seawards — Also, seawards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.