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9-letter words containing a, r, o, w

  • part work — magazine series
  • patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
  • pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
  • phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
  • plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
  • polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
  • poor laws — laws that provide for public relief and assistance for the poor
  • portadown — a town in S Northern Ireland, in the district of Armagh. Pop: 25 958 (2001)
  • powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
  • power mac — (computer)   Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
  • power nap — a short sleep taken during the working day with the intention of improving the quality of work later in the day
  • power-saw — to cut with a power saw.
  • powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
  • prop wash — propeller wash.
  • prowl car — squad car.
  • quadwords — Plural form of quadword.
  • railwoman — a female worker on a railway
  • rainbowed — containing, resembling, or involving a rainbow
  • ramp down — decrease effort, work
  • rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
  • raw score — the original score, as of a test, before it is statistically adjusted.
  • raw-boned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
  • rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
  • reforward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • reswallow — to swallow again
  • road show — touring performance or display
  • road town — a town on SE Tortola, in the NE West Indies: capital of the British Virgin Islands.
  • road-show — of or relating to road shows.
  • roadworks — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
  • rock wall — rock fence.
  • rockwater — water that comes out of rock
  • 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.
  • rosewater — perfume, flavouring from rose petals
  • safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
  • saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
  • scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
  • scarecrow — an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
  • sea power — naval strength.
  • seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • shallower — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • shoreward — Also, shorewards. toward the shore or land.
  • shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
  • shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • show card — an advertising placard or card.
  • showbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
  • sioux war — any of a series of skirmishes or wars between the Sioux Indians and settlers or the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1890.
  • snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
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