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8-letter words containing wo

  • nyetwork — notwork
  • openwork — any kind of work, especially ornamental, as of embroidery, lace, metal, stone, or wood, having a latticelike nature or showing openings through its substance.
  • out-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • outworks — Plural form of outwork.
  • outworld — (in science fiction) an outlying or alien planet.
  • outworth — to be more valuable than
  • ovenwood — brushwood; deadwood fit only for burning.
  • overword — a word that is repeated, as a refrain in a song.
  • overwore — simple past tense of overwear.
  • overwork — to cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work (often used reflexively): Don't overwork yourself on that new job.
  • overworn — past participle of overwear.
  • packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
  • partwork — series of magazines issued at weekly or monthly intervals, which are designed to be bound together to form a complete course or book
  • password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
  • pearwood — the hard, fine-grained, reddish wood of the pear tree, used for ornamentation, small articles of furniture, and musical instruments.
  • penwoman — a female writer
  • pilework — construction built from heavy stakes or cylinders
  • pilewort — Also called fireweed. a weedy composite plant, Erechtites hieracifolia, having narrow flower heads enclosed in green bracts.
  • pillworm — a type of millipede that can roll itself up into a ball
  • pillwort — a small Eurasian water fern, Pilularia globulifera, with globular spore-producing bodies and grasslike leaves
  • pinewood — the wood of a pine.
  • pipework — pipes and stops on an organ
  • pipewort — a perennial plant, Eriocaulon septangulare, of wet places in W Republic of Ireland, the Scottish Hebrides, and the eastern US, having a twisted flower stalk and a greenish-grey scaly flower head: family Eriocaulaceae
  • polliwog — a tadpole.
  • pollywog — a tadpole.
  • porkwood — the wood of a small tree, Pisonia obtusata, native to the United States and Caribbean
  • pulpwood — spruce or other soft wood suitable for making paper.
  • quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
  • rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
  • red wolf — a small, reddish-gray American wolf, Canis rufus, similar to the coyote: once abundant in the southeastern U.S., it is now near extinction in the wild.
  • red worm — North Central, South Midland, and Southern U.S. an earthworm.
  • ringwomb — a complication at lambing resulting from failure of the cervix to open
  • ringwood — a town in N New Jersey.
  • ringwork — a circular earthwork used as a defence and made up of a surrounding bank and ditch
  • ringworm — any of a number of contagious skin diseases caused by certain parasitic fungi and characterized by the formation of ring-shaped eruptive patches.
  • roadwork — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
  • rockwork — stonework.
  • rootworm — the larva of any of several insects, as the cucumber beetle, that feeds on the roots of plants.
  • ropework — the activities involved in making, mending, tying, and using ropes
  • rosewood — any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
  • rushwork — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
  • saltwork — place where salt is refined
  • saltwort — any of various plants of sea beaches, salt marshes, and alkaline regions, especially belonging to the genus Salsola, of the amaranth family, as S. kali, a bushy plant having prickly leaves, or belonging to the genus Salicornia.
  • 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.
  • sasswood — a tropical African tree, Erythrophleum suavolens, of the legume family, having a poisonous bark and hard, durable wood.
  • saw wood — a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
  • saw-wort — a perennial Old World plant, Serratula tinctoria, having serrated leaves that yield a yellow dye: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
  • sea wolf — any of several large, voracious, marine fishes, as the wolffish or sea bass.
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