9-letter words containing m, o, r, w
- oarswoman — A female rower, especially as a member of a racing team.
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- 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.
- overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- 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
- roman law — the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries.
- roundworm — any nematode, especially Ascaris lumbricoides, that infests the intestine of humans and other mammals.
- screwworm — the larva of any of certain flies of the genus Callitroga, which sometimes infests wounds and the nose and navel of domestic animals and humans.
- scrumdown — the forming of a scrum in rugby
- semiworks — a manufacturing plant equipped to develop and manufacture a new product in small quantities prior to full-scale manufacture
- snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
- snowstorm — a storm accompanied by a heavy fall of snow.
- somewhere — in or at some place not specified, determined, or known: They live somewhere in Michigan.
- spoonworm — any of various unsegmented, burrowing marine worms of the phylum Echiura, of shallow waters worldwide, having a sausage-shaped body and a flattened head.
- strawworm — caddisworm.
- stumpwork — a type of embroidery popular in the 17th century, consisting of intricate, colorful designs padded with horsehair to make them stand out in relief.
- sword arm — the arm in which your sword is normally held
- swordsman — a person who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
- time-worn — worn or impaired by time.
- tirewoman — a lady's maid.
- tube worm — any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
- twiformed — consisting of two parts
- twin room — twin1 (def 4).
- twin-room — either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.
- two-timer — to be unfaithful to (a lover or spouse).
- wap forum — (body) The official body developing Wireless Application Protocol.
- wardmotes — Plural form of wardmote.
- wardrooms — Plural form of wardroom.
- warerooms — Plural form of wareroom.
- warm down — If you warm down after doing a physical activity, you do special exercises to help relax your muscles and joints.
- warm over — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warm spot — Physiology. a sensory area in the skin that responds to an increase in temperature.
- warm tone — a yellow, brown, olive, or reddish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- warm-down — a tapering off or recovery from strenuous physical exercise, especially running or racing, by slowing down or doing light stretches.
- warmblood — A horse of a breed that is a cross between an Arab or similar breed and another breed of the draft or pony type.
- warmonger — a person who advocates, endorses, or tries to precipitate war.
- warmouths — Plural form of warmouth.
- washrooms — Plural form of washroom.
- wave-form — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- waveforms — Plural form of waveform.
- wearisome — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- wheatworm — a small nematode, Tylenchus tritici, that stunts growth and disrupts seed production in wheat.
- wherefrom — (archaic) from which.
- whipworms — Plural form of whipworm.
- windstorm — a storm with heavy wind but little or no precipitation.
- wireworms — Plural form of wireworm.
- wolframic — tungstic.