9-letter words containing a, w
- plainview — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- plan view — plan (def 4).
- plateware — household dishes, especially ones made of or plated with gold or silver.
- play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play with — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- plug away — keep working on sth
- polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
- 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)
- postwoman — female postal worker
- 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
- powfagged — exhausted
- prewarned — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- price war — intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
- prop wash — propeller wash.
- prowl car — squad car.
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- pull away — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- quadwords — Plural form of quadword.
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- race-walk — to participate in race walking.
- railwoman — a female worker on a railway
- rainbowed — containing, resembling, or involving a rainbow
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rainwater — (Leo) James, 1917–86, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1975.
- 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 umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- raw-boned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
- re-answer — to answer (a question, etc) again
- red dwarf — any of the faint reddish stars having diameters about half that of the sun and low surface temperatures, about 2000–3000 K; a main sequence star of spectral type M.
- red water — Texas fever
- reforward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- renewably — in a renewable fashion, in such a way as to be renewable
- reswallow — to swallow again
- rewa-rewa — a tall proteaceous tree of New Zealand, Knightia excelsa, yielding a beautiful reddish timber