9-letter words containing a, w
- slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- slash-saw — plain-saw.
- sleepwalk — to engage in sleepwalking.
- sleepwear — garments, as nightgowns or pajamas, worn for sleeping or at bedtime.
- slew rate — the rate at which an electronic amplifier can respond to an abrupt change of input level
- slow gait — (of a horse) a slow rack.
- slow lane — On a motorway or freeway, the slow lane is the lane for vehicles which are moving more slowly than the other vehicles.
- slow wave — delta wave.
- slowcoach — a slowpoke.
- sluiceway — a channel controlled by a sluice gate.
- smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
- smartweed — any of several weeds of the genus Polygonum, having a smarting, acrid juice.
- snakeweed — bistort (def 1).
- snakewise — in a snake-like manner
- snakewood — the heavy, dark-red wood of a South American tree, Piratinera guianensis, used for decorative veneers, musical instrument bows, etc.
- snow bank — a long raised mass of fallen snow
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- snow-clad — covered with snow.
- snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
- snowboard — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowdonia — a massif in NW Wales, in Gwynedd, the highest peak being Snowdon
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- sock away — to strike or hit hard.
- sod's law — (humour) Murphy's Law.
- sound law — phonetic law.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- space law — the projected law that would govern the use of outer space by various nations based on certain treaties.
- spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
- spaceward — going into space
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- speechway — a pattern, style, or feature of spoken language shared by the people of a particular group or area.
- speedwalk — an endless conveyor belt, moving walk, or the like used to transport standing persons from place to place.
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- spoonways — like spoons, esp by fitting together in the way that spoons do
- sprawling — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- squaw man — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white or other non-Indian man married to a North American Indian woman.
- squawbush — a rank-smelling, sprawling shrub, Rhus trilobata malacophylla, of the cashew family, native to California, having spikes of greenish flowers.
- squawfish — any of several large, voracious cyprinid fishes of the genus Ptychocheilus, inhabiting rivers of the western U.S. and Canada: the Colorado squawfish, P. lucius, is endangered.
- squawking — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- squawroot — a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
- stairwell — the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.
- stairwise — by steps or in the manner of steps
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- stalworth — stalwart.
- standaway — (of a garment) designed or constructed to stand upright or extend outward from the body: a standaway collar.