[1] Four singles were released from the album including "Husbands and Wives," Miller's final Top 5 country hit.

Words also featured "Billy Bayou" and "Home," two songs which Miller had written earlier in his career for country singer Jim Reeves, who released the songs as singles in the late 1950s, charting at #1 and #2 respectively[4] with "Billy Bayou" being the first #1 written by Miller in his career.

Curly Putman received songwriting credit along with Miller on the track "Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit.

It labeled the first track, "My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died," as one of Miller's "weirdest song[s]", calling it "an attack of pure dementia".

The necessity of the seventh track, "Heartbreak Hotel" was questioned by the reviewer, and cited as a precursor to Miller's "laziness" in his later recordings.