8-letter words containing w, f, r
- furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- furrower — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- fuzzword — A term that is deliberately vague or euphemistic in meaning.
- garefowl — an extinct species of seabird (Alca impennis)
- giftware — china, crystal, or other items suitable for gifts.
- giftwrap — to wrap (something), as a package, with decorative paper, ribbon, etc., for presentation as a gift.
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- half-raw — (of meat) only partially cooked
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- how far? — to what extent, distance, or degree?
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lifework — the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.
- moorfowl — the red grouse.
- outfrown — to outdo in frowning; silence, abash, or subdue by frowning.
- overflow — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- red wolf — a small, reddish-gray American wolf, Canis rufus, similar to the coyote: once abundant in the southeastern U.S., it is now near extinction in the wild.
- reflower — to flower again
- rift saw — a saw used for cutting wood radially from a log.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- 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).
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- turf war — dispute over territory
- two-four — a box containing 24 bottles of beer
- wafering — Present participle of wafer.
- wakerife — wakeful.
- warcraft — The art or skill of conducting a war.
- ward off — a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
- warfarer — a person engaged in warfare; a warrior
- warfarin — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble anticoagulant, C 19 H 16 O 4 , used chiefly as a rodenticide.
- warfield — David, 1866–1951, U.S. actor.
- warn off — If you warn someone off, you tell them to go away or to stop doing something because of possible danger or punishment.
- wastrife — wastefulness
- waveform — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- wayfarer — a traveler, especially on foot.
- wear off — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- weariful — full of weariness; fatigued; exhausted.
- web farm — a large website that uses two or more servers to handle user requests
- wee free — a member of the minority of the Free Church of Scotland that refused to be joined with the United Free Church in 1900
- wellfare — Obsolete form of welfare.
- werewolf — (in folklore and superstition) a human being who has changed into a wolf, or is capable of assuming the form of a wolf, while retaining human intelligence.
- westford — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- wetproof — waterproof.
- wharfage — the use of a wharf: to charge higher rates for wharfage.
- wharfing — Wharfs collectively.
- wharfman — A man who works on a wharf.
- what for — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.