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8-letter words that end in ow

  • hounslow — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • ice show — entertainment in which a company of ice skaters exhibit their skills to musical accompaniment.
  • in a row — lined up
  • interrow — occurring or existing between rows
  • jim crow — racial segregation
  • jim-crow — favoring or supporting Jim Crow.
  • joe blow — an average citizen; man in the street.
  • just now — a moment ago
  • kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
  • kingchow — former name of Jiangling.
  • know-how — the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
  • kweichow — Guizhou.
  • lobbygow — an errand boy, as formerly in the Chinatown section of a city.
  • low blow — (in boxing) an illegal blow below the waist of an opponent.
  • male cow — a bull.
  • milk cow — a cow that is raised for its milk rather than for beef.
  • misthrow — (transitive) To throw incorrectly.
  • monobrow — a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them: He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.
  • moonglow — Moonlight.
  • mouthbow — Musical bow.
  • no throw — an illegal throw in a sport such as the discus or shot put
  • note row — tone row.
  • now, now — You can say 'now, now' as a friendly way of trying to comfort someone who is upset or distressed.
  • outthrow — to throw out or extend: His arms were outthrown in greeting.
  • overblow — to give excessive importance or value to: to overblow one's own writing.
  • overbrow — (poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
  • overcrow — to crow over
  • overflow — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
  • overgrow — to grow over; cover with a growth of something.
  • overslow — too slow
  • peepshow — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
  • postshow — of or relating to the period after a show, occurring after a show
  • re-endow — to endow again
  • rebellow — to re-echo loudly
  • reborrow — to borrow (something, esp money) again
  • red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
  • roadshow — travelling entertainment
  • rope tow — ski tow.
  • rowdydow — a hullabaloo
  • rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
  • schawlowArthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
  • self-sow — to sow or propagate itself naturally from seeds that have been dropped.
  • sex show — a live performance that customers pay to watch in which people perform sexual acts
  • sideshow — a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
  • skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
  • sky show — a fireworks display
  • snowplow — an implement or machine for clearing away snow from highways, railroad tracks, etc.
  • steelbow — the farming stock lent to a tenant by a landlord that must be returned undiminished at the end of the tenancy
  • supercow — a dairy cow that produces a very high milk yield as a result of selective breeding or genetic modification
  • the crow — the constellation Corvus
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