8-letter words containing w, r
- goldwork — work produced by a goldsmith.
- greenway — any scenic trail or route set aside for travel or recreational activities.
- grewsome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- grey owl — Grey Owl, original name Archibald Belaney (1888–1938). Canadian writer and conservationist, born in England; adopted Native American identity
- 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.
- gromwell — any of various often hairy plants of the genus Lithospermum, of the borage family, usually bearing white or yellowish flowers and smooth, white, stony nutlets.
- grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
- grow fat — If you say that a person or organization has grown fat on something, you mean that they have become very rich as a result of it.
- grow out — hairstyle: allow to lengthen
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- growlers — Plural form of growler.
- growlery — a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured
- growling — Producing a growl.
- grown-up — having reached the age of maturity.
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- gurdwara — a Sikh temple in India.
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- 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.
- half-raw — (of meat) only partially cooked
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- hardwall — a type of gypsum plaster used as a basecoat.
- hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.
- harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
- haridwar — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N India, on the Ganges River: a holy city to Hindus.
- harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
- harrower — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
- hawthorn — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family, typically a small tree with stiff thorns, certain North American species of which have white or pink blossoms and bright-colored fruits and are cultivated in hedges.
- hayworth — Rita (Margarita Carmen Cansino) 1918–87, U.S. dancer and actress.
- headward — In the region or direction of the head.
- headwear — coverings for the head, especially hats.
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- hedgerow — a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge.
- heelwork — the training of a dog to heel or perform maneuvers while heeling.
- hellward — towards hell
- hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- hereaway — hereabout.