8-letter words containing w, r, i
- low-rise — having a comparatively small number of floors, as a motel or townhouse, and usually no elevator.
- low-risk — A low-risk customer, risk, occupation, or property is not very likely to be exposed to a danger.
- lowering — comparative of low1 .
- lowrider — an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- milkwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the secretion of milk.
- millwork — ready-made carpentry work from a mill.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- misaward — to award wrongly
- misdrawn — 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).
- misthrew — Simple past form of misthrow.
- misthrow — (transitive) To throw incorrectly.
- miswired — Wired incorrectly.
- miswrite — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- miswrote — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- nanowire — A nanoscale rod made of semiconducting material, used in miniature transistors and some laser applications.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- newsgirl — a girl who sells or delivers newspapers.
- newswire — a service transmitted especially by teletypewriter and providing late-breaking news stories, stock-market results, or other up-to-the-minute information: We took the story off the newswires.
- outwhirl — to surpass at whirling
- outwrite — to write more or better than.
- overswim — to swim across
- overview — a general outline of a subject or situation; survey or summary.
- overwide — too wide
- overwily — too crafty
- overwind — to wind beyond the proper limit; wind too far: He must have overwound his watch.
- overwing — to fly above
- overwire — a spiral-bound book in which the spiral is covered by the spine.
- overwise — excessively or unusually wise: overwise for a child of her age.
- pairwise — two identical, similar, or corresponding things that are matched for use together: a pair of gloves; a pair of earrings.
- parawing — paraglider.
- penwiper — a piece of equipment for cleaning the ink from a pen
- 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
- pipework — pipes and stops on an organ
- pipewort — a perennial plant, Eriocaulon septangulare, of wet places in W Republic of Ireland, the Scottish Hebrides, and the eastern US, having a twisted flower stalk and a greenish-grey scaly flower head: family Eriocaulaceae
- poorwill — a small bird of North America
- powering — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- preweigh — to weigh beforehand
- prewired — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- prowling — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- rainbows — the Rainbow Guides, the youngest group of girls (aged 5-7 years) in The Guide Association
- rainwash — material eroded or swept away by rain.
- rainwear — waterproof or water-repellent clothing.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- raw milk — unpasteurized milk