9-letter words containing n, o, w
- windthrow — the uprooting of trees by wind
- winehouse — Amy (Jade). 1983–2011, English rock singer and songwriter; her albums include Frank (2003) and Back to Black (2006)
- wing bolt — a bolt with a head like a wing nut.
- wing shot — a shot at a bird in flight.
- wingovers — Plural form of wingover.
- winnebago — a member of a North American Indian tribe speaking a Siouan language closely related to Assiniboin, Teton, and Mandan, formerly located in Green Bay, Wis., now living in Green Bay and NE Nebraska.
- winnowing — to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.
- winsomely — sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging: a winsome smile.
- winsorize — (statistics) To transform statistics of a batch or sample by transforming extreme values.
- wipe down — If you wipe down something, you wash or dry its surface completely.
- wirebound — Held together with a binding of wire.
- wiresonde — an instrument carried aloft by a captive balloon and sending temperature and humidity data over a wire cable.
- wisconsin — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,154 sq. mi. (145,440 sq. km). Capital: Madison. Abbreviation: WI (for use with zip code), Wis., Wisc.
- wisewoman — a female magician or conjurer
- wishbones — Plural form of wishbone.
- witchknot — a knot of hair
- withgoing — Present participle of withgo.
- witwanton — an instance of being disrespectfully witty
- woadwaxen — an ornamental Eurasian shrub, Genista tinctoria, whose flowers yield a yellow dye formerly used with woad to make a permanent green dye.
- wobbegong — the carpet shark.
- woebegone — beset with woe; affected by woe, especially in appearance.
- wofulness — the state or condition of being woeful
- wokingham — a unitary authority in SE England, in Berkshire. Pop: 151 200 (2003 est). Area: 179 sq km (69 sq miles)
- wolf down — eat hungrily or greedily
- wolf note — wolf (defs 8a, c).
- wolfhound — any of several large dogs used in hunting wolves.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
- wollaston — William Hyde, 1766–1828, English chemist and physicist.
- wolverene — Alternative spelling of wolverine.
- wolverine — Also called carcajou. a stocky, carnivorous North American mammal, Gulo luscus, of the weasel family, having blackish, shaggy hair with white markings.
- woman-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy; based on a standard number of woman-hours in a day of work.
- womanhood — the state of being a woman; womanly character or qualities.
- womaniser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanizer.
- womanized — to make effeminate.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- womanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of womanize.
- womankind — women, as distinguished from men; the female sex.
- womanless — Without women or a woman.
- womanlike — like a woman; womanly.
- womanness — like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
- womenfolk — women in general; all women.
- womenkind — womankind.
- womenless — Without women.
- wonderboy — (informal) A male child prodigy, or (loosely) a talented male of any age.
- wonderers — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- wonderful — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wondering — expressing admiration or amazement; marveling.
- wonderkid — a young person whose excellence in his or her discipline is appropriate to someone older and more experienced
- wonderous — Wondrous.
- wonderpop — (language) (WPOP) An implementation of POP for the PDP-10 made by Robert Rae <[email protected]> in Edinburgh in 1976. WonderPop used "cages" for different data types and introduced processes, properties and some typed identifiers.