8-letter words containing w, o, y
- rowdyism — rough, disorderly behavior.
- royal we — we (def 5).
- ryotwari — (in India) a system of land tenure in which land taxes are paid to the state
- show day — (in Australia) a public holiday in a state on the date of its annual agricultural and industrial show
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- sky show — a fireworks display
- snow day — a day on which public schools or other institutions are closed due to heavy snow.
- soakaway — a pit filled with rubble, etc, into which rain or waste water drains
- soaraway — If you describe something as a soaraway success, you mean that its success has suddenly increased.
- sowbelly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
- stowaway — a person who hides aboard a ship or airplane in order to obtain free transportation or elude pursuers.
- towardly — apt to learn; promising.
- toy with — If you toy with an idea, you consider it casually without making any decisions about it.
- toywoman — a woman who sells toys
- tryworks — the furnace and other apparatus, as on whaling ships in the past, used for rendering blubber into oil
- twentymo — a book size of about 3 × 5 inches (8 × 12 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 20 leaves or 40 pages.
- twopenny — of the amount or value of twopence.
- unworthy — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- wagonway — A crude road for wagons.
- wantonly — done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: a wanton attack; wanton cruelty.
- wanwordy — without merit
- waterboy — Alternative spelling of water boy.
- way port — a port of call on a particular route
- way-cool — outstanding; excellent; marvellous
- wayboard — a thin geological seam separating larger strata
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- waygoing — the act of leaving; departure; leavetaking.
- wayleggo — away here! let go!; a shepherd's call to a dog on completion of a task
- waypoint — a place or point between major points on a route.
- weaponry — weapons or weaponlike instruments collectively.
- weymouth — a town in E Massachusetts, S of Boston.
- whiteboy — (UK, US, slang, mildly, pejorative) A young Caucasian male.
- wide boy — A wide boy is a man, especially a young man, who has a lot of money but who earns it in a dishonest or illegal way.
- widebody — a jet airliner having a fuselage wide enough to allow passenger seating to be divided by two aisles running from front to back.
- wittolly — characteristic of a wittol
- woefully — affected with, characterized by, or indicating woe: woeful melodies.
- wolseley — Garnet Joseph, 1st Viscount, 1833–1913, British field marshal.
- wonderly — (obsolete) Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.
- wontedly — Usually, customarily, or habitually.
- wood ray — xylem ray.
- woodbury — a city in SW New Jersey.
- woodenly — consisting or made of wood; wood: a wooden ship.
- woodyard — A yard where wood is chopped or stored.
- wooingly — In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness.
- woollily — Alternative spelling of woolily.
- 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.