8-letter words containing w, s, d
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shadwell — Thomas, 1642?–92, English dramatist: poet laureate 1688–92.
- sherwood — Robert Emmet [em-it] /ˈɛm ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1955, U.S. dramatist.
- show day — (in Australia) a public holiday in a state on the date of its annual agricultural and industrial show
- showdown — the laying down of one's cards, face upward, in a card game, especially poker.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- shrewder — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrewdie — a shrewd person
- shrewdly — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shutdown — a shutting down, as of a factory, school, or machine; a termination or suspension of operations, services, or business activity: a partial government shutdown; an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
- side-way — a byway.
- sideshow — a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewall — the part of a pneumatic tire between the edge of the tread and the rim of the wheel.
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- sidewind — to move like a sidewinder.
- sidewise — sideways
- siliwood — (jargon) (Or "Hollywired") The coming convergence of film, interactive TV and computers.
- silkweed — any milkweed, the pods of which contain a silky down.
- sit down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
- sit-down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
- skewbald — (especially of horses) having patches of brown and white.
- skewered — a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- slowdown — a slowing down or delay in progress, action, etc.
- snow day — a day on which public schools or other institutions are closed due to heavy snow.
- snowbird — junco.
- snowdome — a leisure centre with facilities for skiing, skating, etc
- snowdrop — any of several early-blooming bulbous plants belonging to the genus Galanthus, of the amaryllis family, native to Eurasia, especially G. nivalis, having drooping white flowers with green markings.
- snowland — an area that is covered by snow
- snowmold — a fungus disease of grasses and grains, appearing in lawns as gray patches near the edge of melting snow
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
- softwood — any wood that is relatively soft or easily cut.
- sorrowed — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sourwood — sorrel tree.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- speedway — a town in central Indiana.
- sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- squawked — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery
- stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
- stowdown — the packing of or stowing in a ship's hold
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- subworld — in literary theory, a world 'created' by a character within a text world or fiction, for example through a flashback or reminiscence on the part of the character; the subworld is subordinate to but not part of the text world
- sumpweed — a herbaceous, oily, annual plant, Iva annua, native to North America and once cultivated for its edible seeds
- sunwards — Also, sunwards. toward the sun.