9-letter words containing s, w, a, r
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drawshave — drawknife.
- drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- drawworks — A drawworks is a drum for reeling the drill string in and out.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- dwarfness — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- ear sewer — Dialect. a dragonfly.
- eastwards — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- entryways — Plural form of entryway.
- fallowers — Plural form of fallower.
- falsework — framework for supporting a structure under construction that is not yet capable of supporting itself.
- farewells — Plural form of farewell.
- firewalls — Plural form of firewall.
- flatwares — utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- flatworms — Plural form of flatworm.
- footwears — Plural form of footwear.
- foreswear — Alternative spelling of forswear.
- forewarns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forewarn.
- forswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forswear.
- frame saw — a saw with a thin blade held in a specially shaped frame
- freakshow — Alternative spelling of freak show.
- frogspawn — The eggs of a frog, which are surrounded by transparent jelly.
- glassware — Ornaments and articles made from glass.
- glasswork — the manufacture of glass and glassware.
- glassworm — arrowworm.
- glasswort — any of several plants of the genus Salicornia, of the amaranth family, having succulent stems with rudimentary leaves, formerly used, when burned to ashes, as a source of soda for glassmaking.
- goalwards — toward or in the direction of the opposing team's goal
- greenwash — Disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.
- greenways — Plural form of greenway.
- gurdwaras — Plural form of gurdwara.
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- hard news — serious news of widespread import, concerning politics, foreign affairs, or the like, as distinguished from routine news items, feature stories, or human-interest stories.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
- hardwoods — Plural form of hardwood.
- hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
- hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
- hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
- headwards — backwards beyond the original source
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- hellwards — towards hell
- heronshaw — a heron
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- houseware — Homeware.
- jackscrew — a jack for lifting, consisting of a screw steadied by a threaded support and carrying a plate or other part bearing the load.
- jackstraw — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.