8-letter words containing w, k, r, o
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
- seatwork — work that can be done by a child at his or her seat in school without supervision.
- sex work — prostitution.
- shitwork — bad work; tedious, badly-paid work
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- slopwork — the manufacture of cheap clothing.
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- taskwork — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- 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
- timework — work done and paid for by the hour or day.
- tinworks — an establishment for the mining or processing of tin or for the making of tinware.
- tryworks — the furnace and other apparatus, as on whaling ships in the past, used for rendering blubber into oil
- tubework — tubes collectively
- unworked — not worked; not used; not exerted
- wakeover — A sleepover party in a public place, such as a church, at which little or no sleep actually gets done.
- walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- warlocks — Plural form of warlock.
- waxworks — an exhibition of or a museum for displaying wax figures, ornaments, etc.
- westwork — (in German Romanesque architecture) a monumental western front to a church, treated as a tower or towers containing an entrance and vestibule below and a chapel above.
- whakairo — the art of carving
- wirework — fabrics or articles made of wire.
- woodlark — a small, European songbird, Lullula arborea, noted for its song in flight.
- woodwork — objects or parts made of wood.
- woolwork — embroidery done with wool
- wordbook — a book of words, usually with definitions, explanations, etc.; a dictionary.
- wordmark — (marketing) A logotype; a standardized graphic representation of the name of a company or product used for purposes of easy identification. It is is often text with unique typographic treatments. Usually the company name is incorporated together with simple graphic treatments, so that the representation of the word essentially becomes a symbol of the company.
- work off — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- work out — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- work-shy — If you describe someone as work-shy, you disapprove of them because you think they are lazy and do not want to work.
- workable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- workably — In an workable fashion.
- workaday — of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
- workbags — Plural form of workbag.
- workboat — a boat used for work or trade rather than sport, public transportation, or military purposes.
- workbook — a manual of operating instructions.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.
- workfare — a governmental plan under which welfare recipients are required to accept public-service jobs or to participate in job training.
- workflow — the flow or amount of work to and from an office, department, or employee.
- workfolk — People who labour.
- workgirl — a young female manual worker
- workhour — any time set aside for work
- workings — Plural form of working.
- workless — Having no work: unemployed.
- workload — the amount of work that a machine, employee, or group of employees can be or is expected to perform.
- workmate — A person with whom one works.
- workouts — Plural form of workout.
- workover — Any kind of oil well intervention involving invasive techniques, such as wireline or snubbing.