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8-letter words containing w, e, d

  • faceward — Toward the face.
  • fadeaway — an act or instance of fading away.
  • farrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of farrow.
  • feedwell — A feedwell is a small container which holds the feed to a bulk settler (= device for separating two substances by gravity) and from which the feed overflows.
  • fidonews — (messaging, history)   The weekly official on-line newsletter of FidoNet, also known as "'Snooz". As the editorial policy of Fidonews was "anything that arrives, we print", there were often large articles completely unrelated to FidoNet, which in turn tend to elicit flamage in subsequent issues.
  • finedraw — (transitive) To sew up so finely that the seam is not visible; to renter.
  • fireward — (obsolete) a fire chief.
  • fireweed — any of various plants appearing in recently burned clearings, as the willow herb, Epilobium angustifolium.
  • firewood — wood suitable for fuel.
  • flaxweed — Toadflax.
  • flowered — having flowers.
  • followed — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • food web — a series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community.
  • foreward — (obsolete) An advance group; the vanguard.
  • forewind — a favourable wind
  • foreword — a short introductory statement in a published work, as a book, especially when written by someone other than the author.
  • frowsted — Simple past tense and past participle of frowst.
  • fuelwood — any wood used as a fuel; firewood
  • furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
  • get down — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • gewgawed — something gaudy and useless; trinket; bauble.
  • glenwood — a town in SW Iowa.
  • glowered — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
  • goatweed — a plant of the genus Capraria
  • goodwife — Chiefly Scot. the mistress of a household.
  • goutweed — a fast-spreading weed, Aegopodium podagraria, of the parsley family, native to Eurasia, having umbels of white flowers.
  • guffawed — a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
  • guideway — a structure, usually made of concrete, that is used to support and guide trains or individual vehicles that ride over it.
  • gulfweed — a coarse, olive-brown, branching seaweed, Sargassum bacciferum, common in the Gulf Stream and tropical American seas, characterized by numerous berrylike air vessels.
  • hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
  • handsewn — sewn by hand.
  • handwave — [possibly from gestures characteristic of stage magicians] To gloss over a complex point; to distract a listener; to support a (possibly actually valid) point with blatantly faulty logic. If someone starts a sentence with "Clearly..." or "Obviously..." or "It is self-evident that...", it is a good bet he is about to handwave (alternatively, use of these constructions in a sarcastic tone before a paraphrase of someone else's argument suggests that it is a handwave). The theory behind this term is that if you wave your hands at the right moment, the listener may be sufficiently distracted to not notice that what you have said is wrong. Failing that, if a listener does object, you might try to dismiss the objection with a wave of your hand. The use of this word is often accompanied by gestures: both hands up, palms forward, swinging the hands in a vertical plane pivoting at the elbows and/or shoulders (depending on the magnitude of the handwave); alternatively, holding the forearms in one position while rotating the hands at the wrist to make them flutter. In context, the gestures alone can suffice as a remark; if a speaker makes an outrageously unsupported assumption, you might simply wave your hands in this way, as an accusation, far more eloquent than words could express, that his logic is faulty.
  • hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
  • hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
  • 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.
  • hawkweed — any composite plant of the genus Hieracium, usually bearing yellow flowers.
  • headwall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
  • headward — In the region or direction of the head.
  • headwear — coverings for the head, especially hats.
  • headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
  • 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.
  • hellward — towards hell
  • hempweed — a climbing herb with flowers that smell of vanilla
  • herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
  • hereward — called Hereward the Wake. 11th-century Anglo-Saxon rebel, who defended the Isle of Ely against William the Conqueror (1070–71): a subject of many legends
  • hideaway — a place to which a person can retreat for safety, privacy, relaxation, or seclusion; refuge: His hideaway is in the mountains.
  • hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
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