8-letter words containing w, r, i
- gershwin — George, 1898–1937, U.S. composer.
- giftware — china, crystal, or other items suitable for gifts.
- giftwrap — to wrap (something), as a package, with decorative paper, ribbon, etc., for presentation as a gift.
- gridwork — Work in the form of a grid.
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- growling — Producing a growl.
- hairwork — the art of producing articles made of hair
- hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- haridwar — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N India, on the Ganges River: a holy city to Hindus.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- herewith — along with this.
- highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
- hindward — backward
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- horowitz — Vladimir [vlad-uh-meer,, vla-dee-meer] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər,, vlæˈdi mɪər/ (Show IPA), 1904–89, U.S. pianist, born in Russia.
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- howitzer — a cannon having a comparatively short barrel, used especially for firing shells at a high angle of elevation, as for reaching a target behind cover or in a trench.
- i wonder — You can say 'I wonder' if you want to be very polite when you are asking someone to do something, or when you are asking them for their opinion or for information.
- imbowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbower.
- in a row — lined up
- in power — in authority
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- in-world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- interrow — occurring or existing between rows
- interwar — occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.
- interweb — (often lowercase) the Internet: used jocularly when pretending to be or referring to an inexperienced Internet user, or when expressing a disdain for certain Internet content: vague recollections presented as fact on the Interweb.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- ironweed — any of certain North American composite plants of the genus Vernonia, having tubular, chiefly purple or red disk flowers.
- ironwood — any of various trees yielding a hard, heavy wood, as the American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana, or Lyonothamnus floribundus, found on the islands off the coast of S California.
- ironwork — work in iron.
- jim crow — racial segregation
- jim-crow — favoring or supporting Jim Crow.
- kirkwall — a town on Pomona island, NE of Scotland in the Orkney Islands: administrative center of the Orkney Islands.
- kirkward — towards the church
- kirkwood — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- knitwear — clothing made of knitted fabric.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- lifework — the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.
- lindworm — a wingless, two-legged dragon
- linework — (arts) The technique of drawing lines.
- linkwork — something composed of links, as a chain.
- liveware — /li:v'weir/ 1. A less common synonym for wetware 2. (Cambridge) Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad."
- livewire — Alternative spelling of live wire.