8-letter words containing dow
- backdown — an act of retreating from a previously asserted position
- beatdown — A physical beating or assault.
- bed down — If you bed down somewhere, you sleep there for the night, instead of in a bed.
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- blowdown — an accident in a nuclear reactor in which a cooling pipe bursts causing the loss of essential coolant
- bog down — If a plan or process bogs down or if something bogs it down, it is delayed and no progress is made.
- bow down — If you refuse to bow down to another person, you refuse to show them respect or to behave in a way which you think would make you seem weaker or less important than them.
- buy-down — a subsidy for a long-term mortgage offered by a third party, as a builder or developer, to lower interest rates for a buyer in the early years of the loan.
- comedown — If you say that something is a comedown, you think that it is not as good as something else that you have just done or had.
- cooldown — a series of gentle stretching exercises conducted after strenuous activity in order to allow the heart rate to gradually return to normal
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- cry down — to belittle; disparage
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- die down — If something dies down, it becomes very much quieter or less intense.
- disendow — to deprive (a church, school, etc.) of endowment.
- dowagers — Plural form of dowager.
- dowdiest — Superlative form of dowdy.
- dowdyish — Like a dowdy; frumpy.
- dowdyism — the quality of being dowdy
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowelled — Simple past tense and past participle of dowel.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- dowfness — the quality or characteristic of being dowf
- down low — of or pertaining to men who secretly or discreetly have sex with other men: She once dated a down-low guy.
- down-bow — (in bowing on a stringed instrument) a stroke bringing the tip of the bow toward the strings, indicated in scores by the symbol (opposed to up-bow).
- down-low — of or pertaining to men who secretly or discreetly have sex with other men: She once dated a down-low guy.
- downbeat — the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
- downbent — Bent downward.
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- downcome — a downcomer.
- downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
- downflow — something that flows downwards
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- downhill — down the slope of a hill; downward.
- downhold — the act of keeping spending, expenses, losses, inflation, etc., as low as possible or advisable.
- downhole — a hole dug or drilled downward, as in a mine or a petroleum or gas well.
- downhome — Alternative form of down-home.
- downiest — Superlative form of downy.
- downland — An area of rolling downs, often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone.
- downless — the soft, first plumage of many young birds.
- downlike — having the quality or characteristics of feathers or down
- downline — Alternative spelling of down line.
- downlink — a transmission path for data or other signals from a communications satellite or airborne platform to an earth station.
- download — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
- downmost — in the lowest position
- downpipe — downspout.
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- downpour — a heavy, drenching rain.
- downrate — to lower the rate of: to downrate the speed of an economic recovery.
- downrush — (intransitive) To rush down; rush downward.
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