8-letter words containing dow
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- put down — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- put-down — a landing of an aircraft.
- re-endow — to endow again
- rig down — Chiefly Nautical. to put in proper order for working or use. to fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with the necessary shrouds, stays, etc. to fit (shrouds, stays, sails, etc.) to the mast, yard, or the like.
- rowdydow — a hullabaloo
- rub down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- run down — melted or liquefied: run butter.
- run-down — fatigued; weary; exhausted.
- set down — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shadowed — of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- showdown — the laying down of one's cards, face upward, in a card game, especially poker.
- 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.
- 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.
- slimdown — instance of an organization cutting staff
- slowdown — a slowing down or delay in progress, action, etc.
- stowdown — the packing of or stowing in a ship's hold
- takedown — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- teardown — a taking apart; disassembly.
- thindown — a reduction in the number of particles, esp protons, of very high energy reaching and penetrating the earth's atmosphere from outer space
- tie down — that with which anything is tied.
- tie-down — a device for tying something down.
- top-down — See under structured programming.
- turndown — that is or may be turned down; folded or doubled down: a turndown collar.
- unshadow — to remove a shadow from
- walkdown — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
- washdown — the act or process of washing down, as in cleaning something completely.
- widowers — Plural form of widower.
- widowing — Present participle of widow.
- widowman — a widower
- windowed — Having a window or windows for admitting light or air.