8-letter words containing w, o, r, y
- towardly — apt to learn; promising.
- tryworks — the furnace and other apparatus, as on whaling ships in the past, used for rendering blubber into oil
- unworthy — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- wanwordy — without merit
- waterboy — Alternative spelling of water boy.
- way port — a port of call on a particular route
- wayboard — a thin geological seam separating larger strata
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- weaponry — weapons or weaponlike instruments collectively.
- wonderly — (obsolete) Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.
- wood ray — xylem ray.
- woodbury — a city in SW New Jersey.
- woodyard — A yard where wood is chopped or stored.
- wordplay — clever or subtle repartee; verbal wit.
- 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.
- workably — In an workable fashion.
- workaday — of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.
- worrying — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- worthily — having adequate or great merit, character, or value: a worthy successor.
- wrymouth — any blennioid fish of the family Stichaeidae, having a large, upturned mouth, especially Cryptacanthodes maculatus, a bottom fish of the Atlantic Ocean.
- yardwork — (North America) Work done in maintaining a lawn, and related landscaping activities.
- yellower — a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
- yorktown — a village in SE Virginia: surrender (October 19, 1781) of Cornwallis to Washington in the American Revolution.
- zworykin — Vladimir Kosma [vlad-uh-meer koz-muh] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈkɒz mə/ (Show IPA), 1889–1982, U.S. physicist, engineer, and inventor, born in Russia: known as the “father of television.”.