9-letter words containing s, w, a, r
- slew rate — the rate at which an electronic amplifier can respond to an abrupt change of input level
- smartweed — any of several weeds of the genus Polygonum, having a smarting, acrid juice.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- snowboard — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- spaceward — going into space
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- sprawling — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- squawroot — a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
- stairwell — the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.
- stairwise — by steps or in the manner of steps
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- stalworth — stalwart.
- star wars — a U.S. weapons research program begun in 1984 to explore technologies, including ground- and space-based lasers, for destroying attacking missiles and warheads.
- steelware — products made from steel
- sternward — toward the stern; astern.
- stewarded — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stewardry — the office or position of a steward or overseer
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- stoneware — a hard, opaque, vitrified ceramic ware.
- stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- strapwort — a seaside plant with leaves resembling straps
- straw hat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
- straw man — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- straw-hat — designating, of, or having to do with a summer theater or summer theaters
- strawless — without a straw or without straw
- strawworm — caddisworm.
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- subwarden — an assistant to a warden, a deputy or subordinate warden
- superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
- superwave — an exceptionally large wave
- swaggered — to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
- swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
- swartzite — a hydrous carbonate of calcium, magnesium, and uranium, occurring in green crystals: an ore of uranium.
- swashwork — a type of work done on a lathe, which is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation of the work
- swear for — to give assurance for; guarantee
- swear off — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- swear out — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- swearword — a word used in swearing or cursing; a profane or obscene word.
- sword arm — the arm in which your sword is normally held
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- swordsman — a person who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
- swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- taperwise — in the manner of a taper