8-letter words containing w, e, k
- nyetwork — notwork
- openwork — any kind of work, especially ornamental, as of embroidery, lace, metal, stone, or wood, having a latticelike nature or showing openings through its substance.
- overweak — too weak
- overwork — to cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work (often used reflexively): Don't overwork yourself on that new job.
- pilework — construction built from heavy stakes or cylinders
- pipework — pipes and stops on an organ
- 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.
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- rag week — students' annual charity fundraiser
- re-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- reawaken — rouse or arouse again
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- rockwell — Norman, 1894–1978, U.S. illustrator.
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- ropework — the activities involved in making, mending, tying, and using ropes
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- sedgwick — Ellery, 1872–1960, U.S. journalist and editor.
- sex work — prostitution.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- silkweed — any milkweed, the pods of which contain a silky down.
- skewback — a sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests.
- skewbald — (especially of horses) having patches of brown and white.
- skewered — a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
- skewness — asymmetry in a frequency distribution.
- ski-wear — clothes that are intended for skiing
- sky wave — a radio wave propagated upward from earth, whether reflected by the ionosphere or not.
- skywrite — to engage in skywriting.
- sleswick — Schleswig.
- slowpoke — a person who makes slow progress.
- squawked — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squawker — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- swelinck — Jan Pieters [yahn pee-tuh rs] /yɑn ˈpi tərs/ (Show IPA), or Jan Pieterszoon [yahn pee-tuh r-sohn] /yɑn ˈpi tərˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA), 1562–1621, Dutch organist and composer.
- takeaway — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
- takedown — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- teakwood — the wood of the teak.
- teamwork — cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
- telework — to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office by the use of home computers, telephones, etc
- the skaw — a cape at the N tip of Denmark
- timework — work done and paid for by the hour or day.
- tubework — tubes collectively
- tweaking — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- twerking — a provocative dance performed by moving the hips rapidly back and forth while standing with the feet apart and raising and lowering the body in a squatting motion
- unwalked — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- unworked — not worked; not used; not exerted
- wackiest — Superlative form of wacky.
- waesucks — alas
- waiflike — Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc.
- wakeless — (of sleep) sound; deep: He lay in wakeless sleep.
- wakening — awakening.
- wakeover — A sleepover party in a public place, such as a church, at which little or no sleep actually gets done.