9-letter words containing s, w, u
- washed up — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, etc.; washable: a wash dress.
- washed-up — done for; having failed completely.
- washhouse — A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
- wasterful — Lb obsolete wasteful.
- watchouts — the act of looking out for or anticipating something; lookout: Keep a watchout for dishonest behavior.
- water-bus — vaporetto.
- wauwatosa — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- wee hours — the first few hours after midnight
- well-sung — a simple past tense and past participle of sing.
- well-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- wellhouse — wellhead (def 2).
- westabout — in, to, or towards the west
- westbound — proceeding or headed west.
- westmount — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- wet nurse — woman hired to breast-feeds another's child
- wet-nurse — to act as a wet nurse to (an infant).
- whiteouts — Plural form of whiteout.
- whodunits — Plural form of whodunit.
- wieschaus — Eric, born 1947, U.S.-born biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- winehouse — Amy (Jade). 1983–2011, English rock singer and songwriter; her albums include Frank (2003) and Back to Black (2006)
- wishfully — having or showing a wish; desirous; longing.
- wistfully — characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.
- wodehouse — Sir P(elham) G(renville) [pel-uh m] /ˈpɛl əm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1975, U.S. novelist and humorist, born in England.
- wofulness — the state or condition of being woeful
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.
- wonderous — Wondrous.
- woodhouse — a house or shed in which wood is stored.
- woodlouse — any of certain small, terrestrial crustaceans of the genera Oniscus, Armadillidium, etc., having a flattened, elliptical body.
- woodmouse — the long-tailed fieldmouse, Apodemus sylvaticus
- woodruffs — Plural form of woodruff.
- workhouse — a house of correction.
- worryguts — Worrywart, someone who worries excessively.
- zugzwangs — Plural form of zugzwang.