9-letter words containing k, w, e
- fireworks — Often, fireworks. a combustible or explosive device for producing a striking display of light or a loud noise, used for signaling or as part of a celebration.
- foreknown — Past participle of foreknow.
- framework — a skeletal structure designed to support or enclose something.
- freakshow — Alternative spelling of freak show.
- gawkiness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- guesswork — work or procedure based on or consisting of the making of guesses or conjectures.
- hacksawed — Simple past tense and past participle of hacksaw.
- hawk-eyed — having very keen sight: a hawk-eyed guard.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hawkweeds — Plural form of hawkweed.
- hell week — the week of hazing before initiation into a college fraternity or sorority.
- hicks yew — a hybrid yew, Taxus media hicksii, having a columnar manner of growth.
- holy week — the week preceding Easter Sunday.
- housework — the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
- interwork — to work or weave together; interweave.
- jackscrew — a jack for lifting, consisting of a screw steadied by a threaded support and carrying a plate or other part bearing the load.
- jawlensky — Alexej von [ah-le-ksey fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈkseɪ fən/ (Show IPA), 1864?–1941, German painter, born in Russia.
- jayhawker — a native or inhabitant of Kansas (used as a nickname).
- jaywalked — Simple past tense and past participle of jaywalk.
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- jewellike — Resembling a jewel or some aspect of one.
- kahoolawe — an island in central Hawaii, S of Maui: uninhabited. 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km).
- keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kennewick — a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River.
- keyworker — The keyworker for a particular group of clients or patients is the person who works with them most closely and has most responsibility for them.
- kickwheel — a potter's wheel rotated by kicking.
- kinswomen — Plural form of kinswoman.
- kittiwake — either of two small, pearl-gray gulls of the genus Rissa, the black-legged R. tridactyla of the North Atlantic and the red-legged and red-billed R. brevirostris, of the Bering Sea, both nesting on narrow cliff ledges and having a rudimentary hind toe.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- knotweeds — Plural form of knotweed.
- know best — to be the best guide, authority, etc.
- knowledge — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
- kwajalein — an atoll in the Marshall Islands, in E Micronesia. About 78 miles (126 km) long.
- late-wake — a lyke-wake
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- lyke-wake — a watch held over a dead person, often with festivities
- make away — to depart in haste
- make news — to do something that is apt to be reported as news
- make with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make-work — work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- metalwork — objects made of metal.
- midweekly — midweek.
- midwicket — (cricket) a fielding position, about 40° forward of square on the leg side, between square leg and mid on.