9-letter words containing h, o, r, s, w
- otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
- outthrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outthrow.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- prop wash — propeller wash.
- road show — touring performance or display
- road-show — of or relating to road shows.
- row house — one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
- row-house — one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
- rush-work — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- shallower — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shellwork — decorative work composed of seashells: an elaborate picture frame decorated with shellwork.
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- shop-worn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- shoreview — a town in E Minnesota.
- shoreward — Also, shorewards. toward the shore or land.
- shoreweed — a tufty aquatic perennial, Littorella uniflora, of the plantain family, that forms underwater mats but usually flowers only on muddy margins
- shorewood — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- shortgown — a short-skirted dress worn by women doing housework
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- show card — an advertising placard or card.
- show girl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- showbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- showerful — abundant
- snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
- somewhere — in or at some place not specified, determined, or known: They live somewhere in Michigan.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- stalworth — stalwart.
- supershow — an exceptional show
- swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
- swashwork — a type of work done on a lathe, which is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation of the work
- swordfish — a large, marine food fish, Xiphias gladius, having the upper jaw elongated into a swordlike structure.
- the sword — violence, warfare
- the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- the worst — the least good or most inferior person, thing, or part in a group, narrative, etc
- throwster — a person who throws silk or synthetic filaments.
- two-horse — If you describe a contest as a two-horse race, you mean that only two of the people or things taking part have any chance of winning.
- wadsworth — a city in N Ohio.
- war horse — a horse used in war; charger.
- war-horse — a horse used in war; charger.
- warehouse — a building, or a part of one, for the storage of goods, merchandise, etc.
- warhorses — Plural form of warhorse.
- warmouths — Plural form of warmouth.
- wash over — water: cover
- washboard — a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
- washrooms — Plural form of washroom.