9-letter words containing s, w, o, r
- goalwards — toward or in the direction of the opposing team's goal
- gromwells — Plural form of gromwell.
- groupwise — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- growthist — an advocate of the importance of economic growth
- guesswork — work or procedure based on or consisting of the making of guesses or conjectures.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- hardwoods — Plural form of hardwood.
- hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
- hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
- hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- heronshaw — a heron
- highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
- 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.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- hookworms — Plural form of hookworm.
- hornworms — Plural form of hornworm.
- hornworts — Plural form of hornwort.
- horseweed — a North American composite weed, Erigeron canadensis, having narrow, hairy leaves and clusters of very small greenish-white flowers.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsewood — A West Indian tree, Calliandra latifolia, with showy crimson blossoms.
- houseware — Homeware.
- housework — the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
- howitzers — Plural form of howitzer.
- howsoever — to whatsoever extent or degree.
- in escrow — a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.
- ironwoods — Plural form of ironwood.
- ironworks — an establishment where iron is smelted or where it is cast or wrought.
- isherwood — Christopher (William Bradshaw) [brad-shaw] /ˈbræd ʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, English poet, novelist, and playwright; in the U.S. since 1938.
- jobsworth — (chiefly, British) A minor worker who refuses to be flexible in the application of rules to help a client or customer.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
- law lords — (in Britain) members of the House of Lords who sit as the highest court of appeal, although in theory the full House of Lords has this role
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
- longsword — A sword of a kind used in mediaeval Europe for hewing, thrusting and slicing. It is well suited to two-handed use in combat, but some can also be used in one hand.
- longwords — Plural form of longword.
- lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
- low brass — an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.
- lower set — (mathematics) A finite non-empty downward closed subset of a partial order.
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- lowermost — lowest1 .
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.