9-letter words containing n, s, w
- 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.
- wispiness — The state of being wispy.
- withstand — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.
- witness's — to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception: to witness an accident.
- witnessed — to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception: to witness an accident.
- witnesser — One who witnesses.
- witnesses — Plural form of witness.
- wittiness — possessing wit in speech or writing; amusingly clever in perception and expression: a witty writer.
- wofulness — the state or condition of being woeful
- 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.
- womaniser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanizer.
- womanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of womanize.
- womanless — Without women or a woman.
- womanness — like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
- womenless — Without women.
- wonderers — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- wonderous — Wondrous.
- wonkiness — The state or condition of being wonky.
- woodbines — Plural form of woodbine.
- woodiness — The state of being woody.
- woodlands — Plural form of woodland.
- woodstone — a type of stone resembling wood; petrified wood
- woodwinds — a musical wind instrument of the group comprising the flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, and occasionally, the saxophones.
- wooliness — Alternative spelling of woolliness.
- wooziness — stupidly confused; muddled: woozy from a blow on the head.
- wordiness — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
- wordings' — the act or manner of expressing in words; phrasing.
- work song — a folk song sung by workers, with a rhythm like that of their work.
- worseness — the state or condition of being worse
- worsening — Present participle of worsen.
- wranglers — Plural form of wrangler.
- wrappings — Plural form of wrapping.
- wrenchers — Plural form of wrencher.
- wrest pin — peg (def 5).
- wrestling — an act of or a bout at wrestling.
- wrinklies — old people
- wrist pin — a pin joining the end of a connecting rod to a trunk piston or the end of a piston rod.
- wristband — the band of a sleeve, especially that of a shirt sleeve, that covers the wrist.
- wrongness — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- wronskian — the determinant of order n associated with a set of n functions, in which the first row consists of the functions, the second row consists of the first derivatives of the functions, the third row consists of their second derivatives, and so on.
- wyn jones — Ieuan (ˈjʊən). born 1949, Welsh politician; leader of Plaid Cymru (2000–2012)
- wyszynski — Stefan [stef-ahn] /ˈstɛf ɑn/ (Show IPA), Cardinal, 1901–81, Polish Roman Catholic clergyman: archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and primate of Poland 1949–81; cardinal 1953–81.
- x-windows — (spelling) A common misnomer for the X Window System.
- zugzwangs — Plural form of zugzwang.