8-letter words containing w, e, r, o, a
- 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.
- harrower — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- horseway — a bridleway
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- jawboner — a person who jawbones
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- 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.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- 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.
- 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
- overweak — too weak
- overwear — to use or wear excessively; wear out; exhaust; tax: needlessly overwearing her best workers; phrases overworn by repetition.
- overwrap — to cover with a wrapping
- 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.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- 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.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- royal we — we (def 5).
- sawhorse — a movable frame or trestle for supporting wood being sawed.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.