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9-letter words containing m, a, w

  • mold-warp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • mollyhawk — the juvenile of the southern black-backed gull, Larus dominicanus
  • mollymawk — any of various oceanic birds, as the fulmar or albatross.
  • moon walk — a walk on the moon
  • moonwalks — Plural form of moonwalk.
  • moonwards — towards the moon
  • moose jaw — a city in S Saskatchewan, in SW Canada.
  • motorways — Plural form of motorway.
  • mouthwash — a solution, often containing antiseptic, astringent, and breath-sweetening agents, used for cleansing the mouth and teeth, and for gargling.
  • 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.
  • multiwall — having a wall or casing composed of layers of material, often pressed closely together: multiwall bags for shipping grain.
  • 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.
  • oarswoman — A female rower, especially as a member of a racing team.
  • oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
  • ohm's law — the law that for any circuit the electric current is directly proportional to the voltage and is inversely proportional to the resistance.
  • old woman — elderly lady
  • one-woman — used, operated, performed, etc., by one woman: a one-woman show.
  • opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
  • palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
  • postwoman — female postal worker
  • 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.
  • railwoman — a female worker on a railway
  • ramp down — decrease effort, work
  • 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)
  • roman law — the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries.
  • sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
  • scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
  • semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
  • shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
  • showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
  • showmanly — characteristic of a showman
  • smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
  • smartweed — any of several weeds of the genus Polygonum, having a smarting, acrid juice.
  • snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
  • squaw man — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white or other non-Indian man married to a North American Indian woman.
  • stew meat — Stew meat is the same as stewing steak.
  • straw man — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
  • strawworm — caddisworm.
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