8-letter words containing wo
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lakewood — a city in central Colorado, near Denver.
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- latewood — Wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season.
- lathwork — work made of laths
- laywoman — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- 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.
- leafworm — A caterpillar that eats the leaves of plants.
- leg work — work or research involving extensive walking or traveling about, usually away from one's office, as in gathering data for a book, a legal action, etc.
- leg-work — work or research involving extensive walking or traveling about, usually away from one's office, as in gathering data for a book, a legal action, etc.
- lifework — the complete or principal work, labor, or task of a lifetime.
- limewood — the wood of a linden.
- lindworm — a wingless, two-legged dragon
- linework — (arts) The technique of drawing lines.
- linkwork — something composed of links, as a chain.
- loanword — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
- lobworms — Plural form of lobworm.
- lockwood — Belva Ann Bennett [bel-vuh] /ˈbɛl və/ (Show IPA), 1830–1917, U.S. lawyer and women's-rights activist.
- log-wood — a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a felled tree.
- logwoods — Plural form of logwood.
- longwood — a city in central Florida.
- longword — (computing) A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (specific number of bits depends upon architecture).
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- lustwort — The sundew.
- lynnwood — a city in NW Washington.
- madwoman — a woman who is or behaves as if insane.
- madwomen — Plural form of madwoman.
- madworts — Plural form of madwort.
- makework — Alternative form of make-work.
- maltworm — a heavy drinker
- mansworn — Past participle of manswear.
- mealworm — the larva of any of several darkling beetles of the genus Tenebrio, which infests granaries and is used as food for birds and animals.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- merwomen — Plural form of merwoman.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- milkwood — any of various trees having a milky juice, as Pseudomedia spuria, of Jamaica.
- milkwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the secretion of milk.
- millwork — ready-made carpentry work from a mill.
- moonwort — any fern of the genus Botrychium, especially B. lunaria, a rare fern having fronds with crescent-shaped leaflets.
- morwongs — Plural form of morwong.
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- my word! — an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc
- networks — Plural form of network.
- new wool — wool that is being processed or woven for the first time
- nonwoody — herbaceous.
- nonwoven — (of a fabric) made of fibers autogenously bonded through the action of a chemical agent or heating device, or adhering by means of resinous substances.