9-letter words containing p, o, w, e
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
- piepowder — a travelling market trader, merchant or similar traveller
- pilotweed — the compass plant, Silphium laciniatum.
- pipe down — a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- pokerwork — the art of decorating wood or leather by burning a design with a heated metal point; pyrography
- polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- pousowdie — any dish containing a number of different ingredients; in particular, a Scottish stew made from sheep's head
- powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
- powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
- powellite — a rare mineral with formula CaMoO4, forming tetragonal crystals
- powellize — to preserve (wood) by boiling it in a sugar solution, as done first by W Powell of Liverpool; also, to preserve (wood) by treating it with arsenic, as marketed by N. S. W. Powell Wood Process Ltd.
- power cut — break in electricity supply
- power hit — (Or "power glitch") A sudden increase (spike) or decrease (drop-out) in the mains electricity supply. These can cause crashes and even permanent damage to computers. Computers and other electronic equipment should really include some kind of over-voltage protection in its mains input to prevent such damamge.
- 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.
- power nap — a short sleep taken during the working day with the intention of improving the quality of work later in the day
- power set — the collection of all subsets of a given set.
- power-saw — to cut with a power saw.
- powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- powerless — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
- poweropen — The PowerOpen Association defines and promotes the PowerOpen Environment (POE).
- powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
- powfagged — exhausted
- pre-owned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
- pregrowth — the period before something begins to grow
- presswork — the working or management of a printing press.
- prowessed — brave or skilful
- prowesses — exceptional valor, bravery, or ability, especially in combat or battle.
- screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- sea power — naval strength.
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- showpiece — something that is displayed or exhibited.
- showplace — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- slopewise — in a sloping manner
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- snowcreep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spelldown — a spelling competition that begins with all the contestants standing and that ends when all but one, the winner, have been required to sit down due to a specified number of misspellings.
- spicewood — spicebush (def 1).
- spokewise — in relation to, away from, or toward a center, as the spokes on a wheel: The projections were arranged spokewise around the core.
- spoolview — (tool) A printing system for Unix. SpoolView can control several printers connected to a TCP/IP network. Different printers can be loaded with different paper and forms. After submitting a print request, the user can change the printer, form, number of copies or priority. Administrators can register new printers, change paper forms on printers, cancel requests, suspend printers.
- spot news — the latest news, reported immediately.
- spot-weld — to weld (two pieces of metal) together in a small area or spot by the application of heat and pressure.
- step down — serving to reduce or decrease voltage: a step-down transformer.