8-letter words containing w, o, d, a
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- downtake — a pipe or passage for conducting smoke, a current of air, or the like downward from a furnace, opening, etc.
- downward — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- downwash — a deflection of air downward relative to an airfoil that causes the deflection.
- dowsabel — sweetheart.
- draw off — 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).
- draw out — 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).
- draw top — a tabletop that can be extended by drawing out and raising leaves suspended from either end.
- 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.
- drawdown — a lowering of water surface level, as in a well.
- 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.
- eastwood — Clint, born 1930, U.S. actor and director.
- facedown — with the face or the front or upper surface downward: He was lying facedown on the floor. Deal the cards facedown on the table.
- farrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of farrow.
- floodway — the channel and adjacent shore areas under water during a flood, especially as determined for a flood of a given height.
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- foodways — the customs and traditions relating to food and its preparation
- foreward — (obsolete) An advance group; the vanguard.
- forwards — forward.
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- goatweed — a plant of the genus Capraria
- godawful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- gondwana — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
- gottwald — Klement [kle-ment] /ˈklɛ mɛnt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1953, Czech Communist leader: prime minister 1946–48; president 1948–53.
- hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- hallowed — regarded as holy; venerated; sacred: Hallowed be Thy name; the hallowed saints; our hallowed political institutions.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.
- harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
- 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.
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- hog-ward — someone who looks after hogs
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- hot-draw — Metalworking. to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- jawboned — Simple past tense and past participle of jawbone.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- lakewood — a city in central Colorado, near Denver.
- latewood — Wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season.
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- 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.
- loanword — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
- low road — a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.
- low-paid — job: poorly remunerated
- lowlands — land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
- madwoman — a woman who is or behaves as if insane.
- madwomen — Plural form of madwoman.