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9-letter words containing s, l, o, w, e

  • old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
  • old welsh — the Welsh language of the period before c1150 a.d.
  • on wheels — Something on wheels has wheels attached to the bottom, so that it can be moved easily.
  • overswell — to overflow
  • ownerless — having no owner
  • plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
  • powerless — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
  • reswallow — to swallow again
  • rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
  • saddlebow — the arched front part of a saddle or saddletree.
  • safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
  • scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
  • scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
  • seldshown — seldom shown
  • self-sown — sown by itself, or without human or animal agency, as of a plant grown from seeds dropped from another plant.
  • semivowel — Phonetics. a speech sound of vowel quality used as a consonant, as (w) in wet or (y) in yet.
  • shallower — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • shellwork — decorative work composed of seashells: an elaborate picture frame decorated with shellwork.
  • shoalwise — in shoals or large groups
  • showerful — abundant
  • showplace — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
  • slideshow — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
  • slopewise — in a sloping manner
  • slow fire — a rate of firing small arms that allows time to aim before each shot.
  • slow lane — On a motorway or freeway, the slow lane is the lane for vehicles which are moving more slowly than the other vehicles.
  • slow oven — an oven heated to a relatively low temperature, for slow, or gradual, cooking
  • slow time — standard time.
  • slow wave — delta wave.
  • snow hole — a shelter dug in deep usually drifted snow
  • snow line — the line, as on mountains, above which there is perpetual snow.
  • snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
  • snowclone — a verbal formula that is adapted for reuse by changing only a few words so that the allusion to the original phrase remains clear
  • snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
  • snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
  • snowglobe — a transparent sphere filled with water and white particles which, when shaken, resemble snow falling
  • snowslide — an avalanche consisting largely or entirely of snow.
  • somewhile — at some former time.
  • southwell — Saint Robert. ?1561–95, English poet and Roman Catholic martyr, who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed for his Jesuit activities. His best-known poem is 'The Burning Babe'
  • sow-belly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
  • 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.
  • 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-weld — to weld (two pieces of metal) together in a small area or spot by the application of heat and pressure.
  • steelwork — steel parts or articles.
  • stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
  • sunflower — any of various composite plants of the genus Helianthus, as H. annuus, having showy, yellow-rayed flower heads often 12 inches (30 cm) wide, and edible seeds that yield an oil with a wide variety of uses: the state flower of Kansas.
  • sweet oil — olive oil.
  • swell box — a chamber containing a set of pipes in a pipe organ or of reeds in a reed organ, and having movable slats or shutters that can be opened or closed to increase or diminish tonal volume.
  • the wolds — a range of chalk hills in NE England: consists of the Yorkshire Wolds to the north, separated from the Lincolnshire Wolds by the Humber estuary
  • towerless — not having a tower
  • unswollen — not swollen
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