9-letter words containing r, e, w, o
- wash over — water: cover
- water boy — a person who carries a canteen or bucket of drinking water to those too occupied to fetch it, as to soldiers, laborers, or football players.
- water dog — a dog trained to hunt in water
- water hog — a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
- water oak — an oak, Quercus nigra, of the southern U.S., growing chiefly along streams and swamps.
- water pox — chickenpox.
- waterbody — Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
- waterdogs — Plural form of waterdog.
- waterford — a county in Munster province, in the S Republic of Ireland. 710 sq. mi. (1840 sq. km).
- waterfowl — a water bird, especially a swimming bird.
- waterhole — A depression in which water collects, especially one from which animals regularly drink.
- watertown — a town in E Massachusetts, on the Charles River, near Boston: U.S. arsenal.
- waterwork — (arts) painting executed in size or distemper, on canvas or walls.
- waterworn — worn by the action of water; smoothed by the force or movement of water.
- waterzooi — A type of Flemish stew, traditionally made with fish.
- watterson — Henry ("Marse Henry") 1840–1921, U.S. journalist and political leader.
- wave-form — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- waveforms — Plural form of waveform.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- waxflower — (botany) Any plant of the genus Hoya.
- waxworker — A worker in the wax industry.
- weaponeer — Military. a person who prepares an atomic bomb for detonation.
- wear down — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- wearisome — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- wearproof — resistant to damage or deterioration by normal use or wear.
- wee hours — the first few hours after midnight
- weedgrown — Overgrown with weeds.
- weird out — to cause (someone) to feel afraid or uncomfortable
- weisshorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Alps. 14,804 feet (4512 meters).
- well-born — born of a good, noble, or highly esteemed family.
- well-trod — a simple past tense and past participle of tread.
- well-worn — showing the effects of extensive use or wear: well-worn carpets.
- wentworth — Thomas, 1st Earl of Strafford, Strafford, 1st Earl of.
- werelions — Plural form of werelion.
- werowance — (historical) A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland.
- westbrook — a city in SW Maine.
- wheatworm — a small nematode, Tylenchus tritici, that stunts growth and disrupts seed production in wheat.
- wheelwork — a train of gears, as in a timepiece.
- wherefore — Archaic. for what? why?
- wherefrom — (archaic) from which.
- whereinto — Into which.
- whereover — (archaic) Over what.
- whereunto — (archaic or formal, interrogative) unto what; to what purpose.
- whereupon — Immediately after which.
- whirlbone — Alternative form of whirl-bone.
- white rot — a decay of wood caused by lignase-producing fungi, especially Phanerochaete chrysosporium.
- who cares — I don't care
- whosoever — Whichever person; whoever.
- whysoever — Form of whyever.
- widowered — a man who has lost his spouse by death and has not remarried.