9-letter words containing s, w, i
- lowliness — humble in station, condition, or nature: a lowly cottage.
- mackinaws — Plural form of mackinaw.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- mess with — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- midas-www — (web) A Motif-based browser for WWW based on the Midas toolkit.
- milkweeds — Plural form of milkweed.
- milkworts — Plural form of milkwort.
- minkowski — Hermann [hur-muh n;; German her-mahn] /ˈhɜr mən;; German ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1909, German mathematician.
- misbestow — to bestow wrongly
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- mishawaka — a city in N Indiana, near South Bend.
- misworded — to word incorrectly.
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- moneywise — In terms of money; financially speaking.
- narrowish — somewhat narrow
- new issue — an issue of shares being offered to the public for the first time
- new spain — the former Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere, at one time including South America (except Brazil), Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, Florida, and most of the land in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River.
- newmanism — the views and theories of John Henry Newman before his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, in which he held that the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England are compatible with Roman Catholicism.
- news film — a film showing main events in the news
- news item — story featured in the news
- newsgirls — Plural form of newsgirl.
- newsiness — The quality or state of being newsy.
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- newswires — Plural form of newswire.
- nonwhites — Plural form of nonwhite.
- otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
- outswings — Plural form of outswing.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- overswing — to swing too hard, hoping to apply more power.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- penis war — (jargon, abuse) (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
- piecewise — denoting that a function has a specified property, as smoothness or continuity, on each of a finite number of pieces into which its domain is divided: a piecewise continuous function; a piecewise differentiable curve.
- piss away — urine.
- plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- pousowdie — any dish containing a number of different ingredients; in particular, a Scottish stew made from sheep's head
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
- rosé wine — alcoholic drink: pink wine
- rosinweed — any coarse, North American, composite plant of the genus Silphium, having a resinous juice and stalkless, paired leaves.
- rowdiness — a rough, disorderly person.
- sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
- salic law — a code of laws of the Salian Franks and other Germanic tribes, especially a provision in this code excluding females from the inheritance of land.
- satinwood — the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used especially for making furniture.
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- schleswig — a seaport in N Germany, on the Baltic.