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9-letter words containing a, l, o, w, n

  • milkwoman — A woman who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
  • moon walk — a walk on the moon
  • moonwalks — Plural form of moonwalk.
  • nail down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • nail-down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • nanoworld — The sphere of influence of nanotechnology.
  • navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
  • nonlawyer — a person who is not a lawyer
  • old woman — elderly lady
  • orwellian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
  • outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
  • own label — Own label is the same as own brand.
  • paulownia — a Japanese tree, Paulownia tomentosa, of the bignonia family, having showy clusters of pale-violet or blue flowers blossoming in early spring.
  • plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
  • play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
  • railwoman — a female worker on a railway
  • rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
  • roman law — the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries.
  • rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
  • scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
  • showmanly — characteristic of a showman
  • slag down — to give a verbal lashing to
  • slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • slow lane — On a motorway or freeway, the slow lane is the lane for vehicles which are moving more slowly than the other vehicles.
  • snow-clad — covered with snow.
  • snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
  • snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
  • sound law — phonetic law.
  • stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
  • talk down — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tawny owl — a European owl, Strix aluco, having a reddish-brown or grey plumage, black eyes, and a round head
  • town hall — a hall or building belonging to a town, used for the transaction of the town's business and often also as a place of public assembly.
  • town plan — a comprehensive document which sets out a vision of the physical and social development of a town, including the construction of facilities
  • town talk — the usual talk, gossip, or rumors, as in a village or town.
  • unallowed — Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers, permitted by the selection rules: allowed transition.
  • unwomanly — not possessing qualities, such as warmth, attractiveness, etc, generally regarded as typical of a woman, esp a mature woman
  • wagon-lit — (in continental European usage) a railroad sleeping car.
  • wagonload — the load carried by a wagon.
  • walk into — If you walk into an unpleasant situation, you become involved in it without expecting to, especially because you have been careless.
  • walk-down — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
  • walkathon — a long-distance walking race for testing endurance.
  • walker-on — someone who has a small part in a play or theatrical entertainment, esp one without any lines
  • wall knot — a knot forming a knob at the end of a rope, made by unwinding the strands and weaving them together
  • walloping — a vigorous blow.
  • wallowing — to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.
  • whalebone — an elastic, horny substance growing in place of teeth in the upper jaw of certain whales, and forming a series of thin, parallel plates on each side of the palate; baleen.
  • wilsonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Woodrow Wilson.
  • wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
  • wollaston — William Hyde, 1766–1828, English chemist and physicist.
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