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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
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