9-letter words containing m, o, w, e, r
- mitrewort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Mitella, of the saxifrage family, having a capsule that resembles a bishop's miter.
- moneywort — a creeping plant, Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, having roundish leaves and solitary yellow flowers.
- monotower — A monotower is an offshore platform without any workers, which has one leg.
- new broom — Someone who has just started a new job and who is expected to make a lot of changes can be referred to as a new broom.
- newcomers — Plural form of newcomer.
- newsrooms — Plural form of newsroom.
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- somewhere — in or at some place not specified, determined, or known: They live somewhere in Michigan.
- 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
- two-timer — to be unfaithful to (a lover or spouse).
- wardmotes — Plural form of wardmote.
- warerooms — Plural form of wareroom.
- warm over — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warm tone — a yellow, brown, olive, or reddish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- warmonger — a person who advocates, endorses, or tries to precipitate war.
- 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.
- wireworms — Plural form of wireworm.
- womaniser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanizer.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- woomerang — boomerang.
- word game — any game or contest involving skill in using, forming, guessing, or changing words or expressions, such as anagrams or Scrabble.
- word time — the time required to transfer a machine word, especially one stored serially, from one memory unit to another.
- workmates — Plural form of workmate.
- workwomen — Plural form of workwoman.
- worm gear — a mechanism consisting of a worm engaging with and driving a worm wheel, the two axes usually being at right angles, used where a relatively low speed and a relatively large amplification of power are desired.
- wormholes — Plural form of wormhole.
- worriment — the act or an instance of worrying; anxiety.
- worrisome — worrying, annoying, or disturbing; causing worry: a worrisome problem.