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9-letter words containing i, w

  • blow into — to arrive in or enter (a room, etc) suddenly
  • blow-pipe — a tube through which a stream of air or gas is forced into a flame to concentrate and increase its heating action.
  • blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
  • blue wire — (IBM) Patch wires added to circuit boards at the factory to correct design or fabrication problems. These may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify another board version. Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire.
  • boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
  • boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
  • boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
  • borrowing — Borrowing is the activity of borrowing money.
  • bowerbird — any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, of Australia and New Guinea. The males build bower-like display grounds in the breeding season to attract the females
  • bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
  • brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
  • brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
  • brainwork — intellectual effort
  • brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
  • briarwood — any of several woods used to make tobacco pipes
  • brickwork — You can refer to the bricks in the walls of a building as the brickwork.
  • bridewell — a house of correction; jail, esp for minor offences
  • bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
  • brierwood — brierroot
  • bringdown — a disappointment
  • broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
  • broadwise — breadthwise
  • browallia — any plant of the Browallia genus of South American flowering plants
  • browridge — the ridge of bone over the eye sockets
  • brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
  • builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
  • burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
  • busy-wait — (programming)   To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
  • by weight — as determined by weighing
  • bytownite — a rare plagioclase found in alkaline igneous rocks
  • can't win — If you say that someone can't win in a particular situation, you mean that they are certain to fail or to suffer whatever they do.
  • cd writer — A CD writer is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a CD.
  • chain saw — A chain saw is a big saw with teeth fixed in a chain that is driven round by a motor.
  • chain-saw — to cut or cut down (lumber, a tree, etc.) with a chain saw.
  • chainsaws — Plural form of chainsaw.
  • chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
  • chewiness — the condition of necessitating chewing or of being difficult to chew
  • chickasaw — a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi
  • chickweed — Chickweed is a plant with small leaves and white flowers which grows close to the ground.
  • chinatown — Chinatown is the name given to the area in a city where there are many Chinese shops and restaurants, and which is a social centre for the Chinese community in the city.
  • chinaware — articles made of china, esp those made for domestic use
  • chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
  • chippeway — Chippewa.
  • chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
  • chow mein — Chow mein is a Chinese-style dish that consists of fried noodles, cooked meat, and vegetables.
  • chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
  • cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
  • civil law — Civil law is the part of a country's set of laws which is concerned with the private affairs of citizens, for example marriage and property ownership, rather than with crime.
  • civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
  • clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
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