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9-letter words containing e, r, w, i

  • outwitter — One who outwits another.
  • over with — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
  • over-wind — to wind beyond the proper limit; wind too far: He must have overwound his watch.
  • overawing — Present participle of overawe.
  • overswing — to swing too hard, hoping to apply more power.
  • overweigh — to exceed in weight; overbalance or outweigh: a respected opinion that overweighs the others.
  • overwrite — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
  • ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • 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.
  • piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
  • piepowder — a travelling market trader, merchant or similar traveller
  • pinwrench — wrench with a projection to fit a hole
  • powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
  • power hit — (Or "power glitch") A sudden increase (spike) or decrease (drop-out) in the mains electricity supply. These can cause crashes and even permanent damage to computers. Computers and other electronic equipment should really include some kind of over-voltage protection in its mains input to prevent such damamge.
  • prereview — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
  • prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
  • prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
  • previewer — someone who or something that gives a preview
  • prewiring — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • reflowing — an occurrence of flowing again
  • rewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
  • rewetting — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
  • rewilding — to introduce (animals or plants) to their original habitat or to a habitat similar to their natural one: proposals to rewild elephants to the American plains.
  • rewinding — an act or instance of rewinding.
  • reworking — revised version
  • rewritten — to write in a different form or manner; revise: to rewrite the entire book.
  • rice bowl — deep dish for rice
  • rice wine — sake: for drinking
  • ride down — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • ridgewood — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • rigwiddie — the part of a carthorse's harness to which the cart is attached
  • riverview — a town in SE New Brunswick, in SE Canada.
  • riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
  • riverward — Also, riverwards. toward a river.
  • riverweed — any of several chiefly tropical submerged aquatic plants of the genus Podostemum and related genera, growing in rapidly moving streams.
  • rosé wine — alcoholic drink: pink wine
  • rosinweed — any coarse, North American, composite plant of the genus Silphium, having a resinous juice and stalkless, paired leaves.
  • rowdiness — a rough, disorderly person.
  • ruwenzori — a mountain group in central Africa between Lake Albert and Lake Edward: sometimes identified with Ptolemy's “Mountains of the Moon.” Highest peak, Mt. Ngaliema (Stanley), with two summits: Mt. Margherita, 16,795 feet (5119 meters), and Mt. Alexandra, 16,726 feet (5098 meters).
  • sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
  • sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
  • scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
  • schwinger — Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1965.
  • semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
  • semiworks — a manufacturing plant equipped to develop and manufacture a new product in small quantities prior to full-scale manufacture
  • sewerlike — resembling a sewer
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