9-letter words containing s, w, u
- lewis gun — a light, air-cooled, gas-operated machine gun with a circular magazine, first used in World War I.
- 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-slung — trousers: hipster style
- lug screw — a small screw without a head
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- malus-law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- mouthbows — Plural form of mouthbow.
- mouthwash — a solution, often containing antiseptic, astringent, and breath-sweetening agents, used for cleansing the mouth and teeth, and for gargling.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- muckworms — Plural form of muckworm.
- muley saw — a saw having a long, stiff blade that is not stretched in a gate, but whose motion is directed by clamps at each end mounted on guide rails.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- new issue — an issue of shares being offered to the public for the first time
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- newsfroup — (messaging, humour) A silly synonym for Usenet newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's news:talk.bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare hing, grilf, and filk.
- newsgroup — a place on a computer network, especially within Usenet, that maintains an online discussion group on a specific topic: newsgroups for movies.
- newshound — A newspaper reporter.
- newsqueak — A concurrent applicative language with synchronous channels.
- no wukkas — an expression used to express agreement or to convey that something is proceeding or has proceeded satisfactorily; no problem
- old squaw — a sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, of arctic and subarctic regions.
- oldsquaws — Plural form of oldsquaw.
- outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
- outswings — Plural form of outswing.
- outthrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outthrow.
- outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- pousowdie — any dish containing a number of different ingredients; in particular, a Scottish stew made from sheep's head
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- quadwords — Plural form of quadword.
- row house — one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
- row-house — one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
- rush-work — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
- rust away — When a metal object rusts away, it is gradually weakened and destroyed by rust.
- screw nut — a nut threaded to receive a screw.
- screw you — expressing contempt
- scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
- scrumdown — the forming of a scrum in rugby
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- showerful — abundant
- shut away — keep confined
- shut down — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
- sioux war — any of a series of skirmishes or wars between the Sioux Indians and settlers or the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1890.
- skunkweed — any of various plants having an unpleasant odor, as the skunk cabbage.
- slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
- slug flow — A slug flow is a condition of a fluidized bed in which large bubbles of gas form, which makes lumps of particles move.
- sluiceway — a channel controlled by a sluice gate.
- snowbound — shut in or immobilized by snow.
- snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
- snowmould — a fungal disease of soil or grass resulting from snow cover