9-letter words containing m, w, a
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- swamp gas — marsh gas
- swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
- swampland — land or an area covered with swamps.
- swap meet — a fair or bazaar where objects, usually secondhand, are bartered or sold.
- swat team — A SWAT team is a group of policemen who have been specially trained to deal with very dangerous or violent situations. SWAT is an abbreviation for 'Special Weapons and Tactics'.
- sweetmeal — (of biscuits) sweet and wholemeal
- sweetmeat — a sweet delicacy, prepared with sugar, honey, or the like, as preserves, candy, or, formerly, cakes or pastry.
- swim mask — mask (def 3).
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- 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.
- the woman — feminine nature or feelings
- time warp — a hypothetical eccentricity in the progress of time that would allow movement back and forth between eras or that would permit the passage of time to be suspended.
- tirewoman — a lady's maid.
- toowoomba — a city in SE Queensland, in E Australia.
- trim away — If you trim away or trim off parts of something, you cut them off, because they are not needed.
- unawesome — not awesome
- unwomanly — not possessing qualities, such as warmth, attractiveness, etc, generally regarded as typical of a woman, esp a mature woman
- view mark — a mark stamped on antique armor or metalwork to indicate inspection and approval by the guild or by officials at the place of manufacture.
- wagenboom — a South African tree
- wahhabism — the group of doctrines or practices of the Wahhabis.
- wakamatsu — a seaport on N Kyushu, in S Japan: formed in 1963 by the merger of five cities (Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata)
- wall game — a type of football played at Eton against a wall
- wall lamp — wall-mounted light
- wampanoag — a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement.
- wanamaker — John, 1838–1922, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- wap forum — (body) The official body developing Wireless Application Protocol.
- war crime — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- 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.
- warmed-up — warmed-over (def 1).
- warmonger — a person who advocates, endorses, or tries to precipitate war.
- warmouths — Plural form of warmouth.
- warp beam — a roller, located at the back of a loom, on which the warp ends are wound in preparation for weaving.
- washerman — a man who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundryman.
- washermen — Plural form of washerman.
- washrooms — Plural form of washroom.
- washwoman — washerwoman.
- wasserman — (obsolete) A mythical sea-monster, being part-man, and thought to destroy ships.
- water elm — planer tree.
- water gum — any of several Australian trees of the myrtle family, growing near water.
- watermark — a mark indicating the height to which water rises or has risen, as in a river or inlet.