8-letter words containing w, e
- downside — the lower side or part.
- downsize — company: make redundancies
- downstep — An downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language.
- downtake — a pipe or passage for conducting smoke, a current of air, or the like downward from a furnace, opening, etc.
- downtime — a time during a regular working period when an employee is not actively productive.
- downvote — such an unfavorable vote.
- downzone — to change the zoning designation on (property) to restrict high-density development.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- drawable — 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).
- drawbore — a hole in a tenon made eccentric with the corresponding holes to the mortise so that the two pieces being joined will be forced tightly together when the pin (drawbore pin) is hammered into place.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- drownded — Simple past tense and past participle of drownd.
- drowsier — Comparative form of drowsy.
- dry well — a drainage pit lined with loose stonework for the leaching of liquid wastes.
- dry wine — wine that is not sweet
- duckweed — any plant of the family Lemnaceae, especially of the genus Lemna, comprising small aquatic plants that float free on still water.
- dweebish — Dweeby.
- dwell on — to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
- dwellers — to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
- dwelleth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwell.
- dwelling — Machinery. a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle. a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.
- dwindled — Simple past tense and past participle of dwindle.
- dwindles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dwindle.
- dyeworks — a factory producing dyes
- e-wallet — an electronic device, website, software system, or database that facilitates commercial transactions by storing a consumer's credit card, shipping address, and other payment data.
- each way — If you bet money each way on the result of a horse race or a dog race, you will win some money if the animal you bet on comes first, second, third, or sometimes fourth.
- ear worm — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- ear-worm — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- earwiggy — having an infestation or a swarm of earwigs
- earworms — Plural form of earworm.
- earywigs — Plural form of earywig.
- eastward — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- eastwood — Clint, born 1930, U.S. actor and director.
- eat away — gnaw at, erode
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- edgeways — with the edge forward; in the direction of the edge.
- edgewise — with the edge forward; in the direction of the edge.
- edgewood — a city in NE Maryland, near Baltimore.
- edward i — ("Edward Longshanks") 1239–1307, king of England 1272–1307 (son of Henry III).
- edward v — 1470–83, king of England 1483 (son of Edward IV).
- eelworms — Plural form of eelworm.
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- eggwhisk — A kitchen utensil made of multiple loops of wire used to beat eggs.
- elbowing — Present participle of elbow.
- elsewise — (now rare) Otherwise.
- embowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embower.
- empowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empower.