9-letter words containing m, a, e, w
- lemon law — a law that requires manufacturers to replace, repair, or refund the cost of automobiles that prove to be defective.
- limewater — an aqueous solution of slaked lime, used in medicine, antacids, and lotions, and to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- mag wheel — a wheel containing magnesium or aluminum generally alloyed with steel, which makes it lighter in weight and shinier than an ordinary steel wheel: used especially on racing cars and sports cars.
- mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
- 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.
- malware's — software intended to damage a computer, mobile device, computer system, or computer network, or to take partial control over its operation: tips on finding and removing viruses, spyware, and other malware.
- man power — the power supplied by human physical exertions: an ancient building constructed entirely by man power.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- meadowrue — A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum.
- mealworms — Plural form of mealworm.
- meanwhile — meantime.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- megawatts — Plural form of megawatt.
- melt away — thaw
- meltwater — water from melted snow or ice.
- metalware — work of metal, especially utensils, flatware, etc.
- metalwork — objects made of metal.
- mews flat — a flat or apartment situated in a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- milwaukee — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- milwaukie — a town in NW Oregon.
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- moose jaw — a city in S Saskatchewan, in SW Canada.
- move away — relocate, go to live elsewhere
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- muley saw — a saw having a long, stiff blade that is not stretched in a gate, but whose motion is directed by clamps at each end mounted on guide rails.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- new maths — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- new media — developing forms of media, usually electronic, regarded as being experimental.
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- newmanism — the views and theories of John Henry Newman before his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, in which he held that the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England are compatible with Roman Catholicism.
- newmanite — an adherent of John Henry Newman.
- newmanize — to adopt or follow Newmanism.
- newmarket — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto.
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
- newswoman — a woman employed to gather news, as for a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television news bureau.
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- one-woman — used, operated, performed, etc., by one woman: a one-woman show.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
- power mac — (computer) Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf