9-letter words containing r, e, w, o
- wild rose — any native species of rose, usually having a single flower with the corolla consisting of one circle of five roundish, spreading petals.
- willpower — control of one's impulses and actions; self-control.
- wind rose — a map symbol showing, for a given locality or area, the frequency and strength of the wind from various directions.
- windborne — Carried by the wind.
- windhover — the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus.
- windpower — Power harnessed or generated from the wind.
- windrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of windrow.
- windrower — a farm implement used to mow a field and arrange the mown crop in windrows.
- wingovers — Plural form of wingover.
- winsorize — (statistics) To transform statistics of a batch or sample by transforming extreme values.
- wire rope — a rope made of or containing strands of wire twisted together.
- wire wool — abrasive steel-fibre material
- wire-wove — made of woven wire.
- wirebound — Held together with a binding of wire.
- wirephoto — a device for transmitting photographs over distances by wire. a photograph so transmitted.
- wiresonde — an instrument carried aloft by a captive balloon and sending temperature and humidity data over a wire cable.
- wireworks — an establishment where wire is made or put to some industrial use.
- wireworms — Plural form of wireworm.
- withe rod — either of two North American viburnums, Viburnum cassinoides or V. nudum, having tough, osierlike shoots.
- wolfberry — a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, of the honeysuckle family, having gray, hairy, egg-shaped leaves and pinkish, bell-shaped flowers, and bearing white berries.
- wolfeboro — a town in E New Hampshire, on Lake Winnipesaukee: summer resort.
- wolverene — Alternative spelling of wolverine.
- wolverine — Also called carcajou. a stocky, carnivorous North American mammal, Gulo luscus, of the weasel family, having blackish, shaggy hair with white markings.
- womaniser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanizer.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- wonderboy — (informal) A male child prodigy, or (loosely) a talented male of any age.
- wonderers — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- wonderful — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wondering — expressing admiration or amazement; marveling.
- wonderkid — a young person whose excellence in his or her discipline is appropriate to someone older and more experienced
- wonderous — Wondrous.
- wonderpop — (language) (WPOP) An implementation of POP for the PDP-10 made by Robert Rae <[email protected]> in Edinburgh in 1976. WonderPop used "cages" for different data types and introduced processes, properties and some typed identifiers.
- wondreful — Obsolete form of wonderful.
- wood fern — any of several shield ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
- wood rose — the dried seed pod of the Ceylon morning glory.
- woodborer — a tool, operated by compressed air, for boring wood.
- woodhewer — woodcreeper.
- woodhorse — a frame for holding wood for sawing; a sawhorse
- woodreeve — a steward responsible for a wood
- woodridge — a city in NE Illinois.
- woodscrew — any of various screws that have a slotted head and a gimlet point that permit them to be driven into wood with a screwdriver.
- woomerang — boomerang.
- worcester — Joseph Emerson, 1784–1865, U.S. lexicographer.
- word game — any game or contest involving skill in using, forming, guessing, or changing words or expressions, such as anagrams or Scrabble.
- word time — the time required to transfer a machine word, especially one stored serially, from one memory unit to another.
- word-lore — a study of words and derivations.
- word-type — word class; part of speech
- wordbreak — the point at which a word is divided when it runs over from one line of print to the next
- wordiness — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
- work area — environment in which a job is done