8-letter words containing w, e, t, r
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- howitzer — a cannon having a comparatively short barrel, used especially for firing shells at a high angle of elevation, as for reaching a target behind cover or in a trench.
- interrow — occurring or existing between rows
- interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- interweb — (often lowercase) the Internet: used jocularly when pretending to be or referring to an inexperienced Internet user, or when expressing a disdain for certain Internet content: vague recollections presented as fact on the Interweb.
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- kowtower — One who kowtows; a sycophant.
- law term — an expression or word used in law
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lewdster — a lewd person
- low rent — Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.
- low-rate — to place a low value on: a policy of low-rating most modern artists.
- low-rent — Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- meatware — Less common synonym for wetware.
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- misthrew — Simple past form of misthrow.
- miswrite — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- miswrote — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- networks — Plural form of network.
- note row — tone row.
- nyetwork — notwork
- outpower — to have more power than or defeat by power
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outtower — to tower over
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- outwrest — to pull out or get possession of forcibly; extort
- outwrite — to write more or better than.
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- pipewort — a perennial plant, Eriocaulon septangulare, of wet places in W Republic of Ireland, the Scottish Hebrides, and the eastern US, having a twisted flower stalk and a greenish-grey scaly flower head: family Eriocaulaceae
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- powerset — (mathematics) The powerset of a set S is the set of possible subsets of S, usually written PS.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- 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
- regrowth — the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.
- rewriter — a person who rewrites material for publication
- rope tow — ski tow.
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- seawater — the salt water in or from the sea.
- setscrew — a screw passing through a threaded hole in a part to tighten the contact of that part with another, as of a collar with the shaft on which it fits.
- skywrite — to engage in skywriting.
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- strewage — strewn or discarded items
- swarther — swarthy.