8-letter words containing n, w, o, r
- drawdown — a lowering of water surface level, as in a well.
- dropdown — (computing, GUI, of a widget) Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
- drownded — Simple past tense and past participle of drownd.
- drowning — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- endowers — Plural form of endower.
- enflower — to decorate with flowers
- fan worm — feather-duster worm.
- fencerow — the uncultivated land on each side of and below a fence.
- footworn — worn down by the feet: a footworn pavement.
- foreknew — Simple past tense and past participle of foreknow.
- foreknow — to know beforehand.
- forewarn — to warn in advance.
- forewent — simple past tense of forego1 .
- forewind — a favourable wind
- forewing — either of the anterior and usually smaller pair of wings of an insect having four wings.
- foreworn — forworn.
- forswink — to exhaust through toil
- forsworn — past participle of forswear.
- forswunk — overworked
- freetown — an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Capital: Freetown.
- frown on — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- frowning — Present participle of frown.
- go wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- growings — Plural form of growing.
- growling — Producing a growl.
- grown-up — having reached the age of maturity.
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- 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.
- hawthorn — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family, typically a small tree with stiff thorns, certain North American species of which have white or pink blossoms and bright-colored fruits and are cultivated in hedges.
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- 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.
- 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 a row — lined up
- in power — in authority
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- in-world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- ingrowth — growth inward.
- interrow — occurring or existing between rows
- ironware — articles of iron, as pots, kettles, or tools; hardware.
- ironweed — any of certain North American composite plants of the genus Vernonia, having tubular, chiefly purple or red disk flowers.
- 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.
- jawboner — a person who jawbones
- knotwork — A design or pattern of interlocking or overlapping geometric shapes resembling a knot.
- lindworm — a wingless, two-legged dragon