9-letter words containing o, s, w, e
- hawsehole — a hole in the stem or bow of a vessel for an anchor cable.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hollowest — Superlative form of hollow.
- home news — news of events in the home country, as opposed to foreign news
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- hoosegows — Plural form of hoosegow.
- horseweed — a North American composite weed, Erigeron canadensis, having narrow, hairy leaves and clusters of very small greenish-white flowers.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsewood — A West Indian tree, Calliandra latifolia, with showy crimson blossoms.
- hose down — spray sth clean
- houseware — Homeware.
- housewife — Sometimes Offensive. a married woman who manages her own household, especially as her principal occupation.
- housewive — (transitive) To manage with skill and economy.
- housework — the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
- howitzers — Plural form of howitzer.
- howsoever — to whatsoever extent or degree.
- in escrow — a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
- isherwood — Christopher (William Bradshaw) [brad-shaw] /ˈbræd ʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, English poet, novelist, and playwright; in the U.S. since 1938.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jonestown — a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.
- jowliness — the feature of having large jowls or a prominent jaw
- kinswomen — Plural form of kinswoman.
- knotweeds — Plural form of knotweed.
- know best — to be the best guide, authority, etc.
- lansdowne — Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice [pet-ee-fits-mawr-is,, -mor-] /ˈpɛt i fɪtsˈmɔr ɪs,, -ˈmɒr-/ (Show IPA), 5th Marquis of, 1845–1927, British statesman: viceroy of India 1888–94, foreign secretary 1900–05.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- locoweeds — Plural form of locoweed.
- lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
- low heels — shoes which have relatively low heels
- lower set — (mathematics) A finite non-empty downward closed subset of a partial order.
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- lowermost — lowest1 .
- lowestoft — a seaport in NE Suffolk, in E England: famous for a type of china.
- lowliness — humble in station, condition, or nature: a lowly cottage.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mealworms — Plural form of mealworm.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- meltdowns — Plural form of meltdown.
- misbestow — to bestow wrongly
- misworded — to word incorrectly.
- moneywise — In terms of money; financially speaking.
- moose jaw — a city in S Saskatchewan, in SW Canada.