8-letter words containing w, o, r, l
- moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- moorfowl — the red grouse.
- narrowly — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- oral law — the traditional body of religious law believed to have been revealed to Moses as an interpretation of the Torah and passed on orally until it was codified and recorded, principally in the Mishna and Gemara
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- outwhirl — to surpass at whirling
- outworld — (in science fiction) an outlying or alien planet.
- overblew — Simple past form of overblow.
- overblow — to give excessive importance or value to: to overblow one's own writing.
- overflow — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overlewd — too lewd
- overslow — too slow
- overwily — too crafty
- owerloup — an encroachment
- pilework — construction built from heavy stakes or cylinders
- pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
- pillworm — a type of millipede that can roll itself up into a ball
- pillwort — a small Eurasian water fern, Pilularia globulifera, with globular spore-producing bodies and grasslike leaves
- poleward — Also, polewards. toward a pole of the earth; toward the North or South Pole.
- poor law — a law or system of laws providing for the relief or support of the poor at public expense.
- poorwill — a small bird of North America
- powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
- prowling — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- rawlbolt — a proprietary anchor bolt for fixing into masonry etc
- rebellow — to re-echo loudly
- 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
- rockwell — Norman, 1894–1978, U.S. illustrator.
- rollaway — designed to be rolled out of the way or out of sight when not in use: rollaway bed.
- ropewalk — a long, narrow path or building where ropes are made.
- rosebowl — a decorative bowl for displaying roses
- rosewall — Ken(neth R.) born 1934, Australian tennis player.
- roweling — a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- royal we — we (def 5).
- rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
- saltwork — place where salt is refined
- saltwort — any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
- showgirl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
- slopwork — the manufacture of cheap clothing.
- slowworm — blindworm (def 2).
- subworld — in literary theory, a world 'created' by a character within a text world or fiction, for example through a flashback or reminiscence on the part of the character; the subworld is subordinate to but not part of the text world
- telework — to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office by the use of home computers, telephones, etc
- toilworn — worn by toil: toilworn hands.
- toleware — articles made of tole.
- towardly — apt to learn; promising.
- ultralow — extremely low