8-letter words containing dw
- 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.
- haridwar — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N India, on the Ganges River: a holy city to Hindus.
- headwall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- headward — In the region or direction of the head.
- headwear — coverings for the head, especially hats.
- headwind — a wind opposed to the course of a moving object, especially an aircraft or other vehicle (opposed to tailwind).
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- hindward — backward
- hindwing — a rear wing on a four-winged insect
- hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
- indwells — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indwell.
- landward — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- landwash — the foreshore, especially that part between high and low tidemarks.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- lindwall — Ray(mond Russell). 1921–96, Australian cricketer. A fast bowler, he played for Australia 61 times between 1946 and 1958
- lindworm — a wingless, two-legged dragon
- madwoman — a woman who is or behaves as if insane.
- madwomen — Plural form of madwoman.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- midwatch — middle watch.
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- midwifed — (rare) Simple past tense and past participle of midwife More commonly midwived.
- midwives — Plural form of midwife.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- mindwipe — (transitive, science fiction) To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves an viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.
- moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- outdwell — to last longer than
- pondweed — any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, most species of which grow in ponds and quiet streams.
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- redwater — a disease of cattle caused by the protozoan Babesia (or Piroplasma) bovis, which destroys the red blood cells, characterized by the passage of red or blackish urine. It is transmitted by tick bites
- roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- sandwell — a unitary authority in central England, in West Midlands. Pop: 285 000 (2003 est). Area: 86 sq km (33 sq miles)
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
- sandwort — any plant belonging to the genus Arenaria, of the pink family, having narrow leaves and clusters of usually white flowers, many of which grow in sandy soil.
- shadwell — Thomas, 1642?–92, English dramatist: poet laureate 1688–92.
- speedway — a town in central Indiana.
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- waldwick — a city in N New Jersey.
- wildwood — a wood growing in the wild or natural state; forest.