9-letter words containing p, o, w
- plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plow into — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plow wind — a wind squall with a narrow, straight path of advance.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- 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.
- poor laws — laws that provide for public relief and assistance for the poor
- poor-will — a goatsucker, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, of western North America.
- portadown — a town in S Northern Ireland, in the district of Armagh. Pop: 25 958 (2001)
- post town — a town having a main Post Office branch
- postwoman — female postal worker
- pottstown — a borough in SE Pennsylvania.
- 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.
- prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
- prop wash — propeller wash.
- prowessed — brave or skilful
- prowesses — exceptional valor, bravery, or ability, especially in combat or battle.
- prowl car — squad car.
- pull down — designed to be pulled down for use: a pull-down bed; a desk with a pull-down front.
- pull-down — designed to be pulled down for use: a pull-down bed; a desk with a pull-down front.
- punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- pygmy owl — any of several small, diurnal owls of the genus Glaucidium, that feed chiefly on insects.
- ramp down — decrease effort, work
- sapanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
- scops owl — any of a group of small owls having ear tufts and a whistling call, especially Otus scops (Old World scops owl) and O. sunia (Oriental scops owl)
- 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.