9-letter words containing b, o, w, s
- slop bowl — a bowl into which the dregs from tea cups are emptied at table
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- 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-boot — a boot specially designed for walking in snow
- snowberry — a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos albus, of the honeysuckle family, cultivated for its ornamental white berries.
- snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
- snowblink — a white luminosity on the underside of clouds, caused by the reflection of light from a snow surface.
- 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.
- snowbound — shut in or immobilized by snow.
- snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
- snowglobe — a transparent sphere filled with water and white particles which, when shaken, resemble snow falling
- sound bow — that part of a bell against which the tongue strikes.
- soup bowl — a container in which soup is served
- sow-belly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
- spoon bow — an overhanging bow having a convex, curved stem.
- subwoofer — a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies, generally below 125 Hz.
- swell box — a chamber containing a set of pipes in a pipe organ or of reeds in a reed organ, and having movable slats or shutters that can be opened or closed to increase or diminish tonal volume.
- swingboat — a piece of fairground equipment consisting of a boat-shaped carriage for swinging in
- swordbill — a South American hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera, having a slender bill that is longer than its body.
- wardrobes — Plural form of wardrobe.
- washboard — a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
- washbowls — Plural form of washbowl.
- webisodes — Plural form of webisode.
- webphones — Plural form of webphone.
- welsh cob — any of a breed of medium-sized riding horse, developed in Wales, with a thickset body and relatively short legs
- westabout — in, to, or towards the west
- westbound — proceeding or headed west.
- westbrook — a city in SW Maine.
- whiteboys — a secret agrarian peasant organization, active in Ireland during the early 1760s, whose members wore white shirts for recognition on their night raids to destroy crops, barns, and other property in redressing grievances against landlords and protesting the paying of tithes.
- wishbones — Plural form of wishbone.
- wobbliest — Superlative form of wobbly.
- 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.
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.
- wood ibis — any of several storks of the subfamily Mycteriinae, especially Mycteria americana, of the warm parts of America, and Ibis ibis, of Africa, having chiefly white plumage and a featherless head and resembling the true ibises in having curved bills: M. Americana is endangered.
- woodbines — Plural form of woodbine.
- wordbooks — Plural form of wordbook.
- workboats — Plural form of workboat.
- workbooks — Plural form of workbook.