8-letter words containing wo
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- gasworks — a plant where heating and illuminating gas is manufactured and piped to homes and buildings.
- giltwood — made of wood and gilded
- glenwood — a town in SW Iowa.
- glowworm — the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
- goldwork — work produced by a goldsmith.
- golliwog — a grotesque black doll.
- gollywog — Alternative form of golliwog.
- goodwood — an area in SE England, in Sussex: site of a famous racecourse and of Goodwood House, built 1780–1800
- 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.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- gunwoman — A female gunman.
- gunwomen — Plural form of gunwoman.
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- hailwood — Mike, full name Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood. 1940–81, English racing motorcyclist: world champion (250 cc.) 1961 and 1966–67; (350 cc.) 1966–67; and (500 cc.) 1962–65
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- hayworth — Rita (Margarita Carmen Cansino) 1918–87, U.S. dancer and actress.
- headword — a word, phrase, or the like, appearing as the heading of a chapter, dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.
- headwork — mental labor; thought.
- heelwork — the training of a dog to heel or perform maneuvers while heeling.
- hepworth — Dame Barbara, 1903–75, English sculptor.
- homewood — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
- homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- hookworm — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- hornwork — A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
- hornworm — the larva of any of several hawk moths, having a hornlike process at the rear of the abdomen.
- hornwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum, found in ponds and slow streams.
- hot-work — to work (metal) at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization.
- i wonder — You can say 'I wonder' if you want to be very polite when you are asking someone to do something, or when you are asking them for their opinion or for information.
- in-world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- ironwood — any of various trees yielding a hard, heavy wood, as the American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana, or Lyonothamnus floribundus, found on the islands off the coast of S California.
- ironwork — work in iron.
- iwo jima — one of the Volcano Islands, in the N Pacific, S of Japan: under U.S. administration after 1945; returned to Japan 1968.
- job work — miscellaneous printing work, as distinguished from books, periodicals, etc.
- kentwood — a city in W Michigan.
- key-word — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- keywords — a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
- kingwood — a Brazilian wood streaked with violet tints, used especially in cabinetwork.
- kirkwood — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- knotwork — A design or pattern of interlocking or overlapping geometric shapes resembling a knot.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.