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9-letter words containing a, w

  • oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
  • oarswoman — A female rower, especially as a member of a racing team.
  • oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
  • oceanward — Toward the ocean.
  • ohm's law — the law that for any circuit the electric current is directly proportional to the voltage and is inversely proportional to the resistance.
  • old squaw — a sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, of arctic and subarctic regions.
  • old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
  • old woman — elderly lady
  • oldsquaws — Plural form of oldsquaw.
  • one-woman — used, operated, performed, etc., by one woman: a one-woman show.
  • opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
  • 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).
  • outerwear — garments, as raincoats or overcoats, worn over other clothing for warmth or protection outdoors; overclothes.
  • outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
  • outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
  • outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
  • outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
  • overawing — Present participle of overawe.
  • overdrawn — Past participle of overdraw.
  • overdraws — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdraw.
  • overswear — to swear again
  • overwatch — to watch over.
  • overwater — to give too much water to
  • overweary — excessively weary; tired out.
  • own brand — Own brands are products which have the trademark or label of the shop which sells them, especially a supermarket chain. They are normally cheaper than other popular brands.
  • own label — Own label is the same as own brand.
  • pack wall — pack1 (def 12a).
  • page view — one viewing of a web page; a single visit: Tracking pageviews is a way of predicting the advertising potential of a website.
  • paintwork — layer of paint on wall or vehicle
  • palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
  • panel saw — a small ripsaw or crosscut saw.
  • paperware — printed matter or items made of paper
  • paperwork — written or clerical work, as records or reports, forming a necessary but often a routine and secondary part of some work or job.
  • part with — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • part work — magazine series
  • pass away — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
  • pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
  • patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
  • paulownia — a Japanese tree, Paulownia tomentosa, of the bignonia family, having showy clusters of pale-violet or blue flowers blossoming in early spring.
  • pawn shop — shop that makes loans on personal property
  • pawtucket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • pay award — a bonus or increase in pay or salary
  • peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
  • penis war — (jargon, abuse)   (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
  • perp walk — an arranged public appearance of a recently arrested criminal for the benefit of the media
  • phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
  • phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • piss away — urine.
  • plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
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