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9-letter words containing s, w

  • bedstraws — Plural form of bedstraw.
  • beeswaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of beeswax.
  • beeswaxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beeswax.
  • blackwash — to present (someone or something) in the worst possible light
  • blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
  • blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
  • blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
  • blutwurst — a German blood sausage
  • boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
  • boerewors — a highly seasoned traditional sausage made from minced or pounded meat
  • bow bells — the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London: it is said that a true Cockney is born within earshot of these bells
  • bow doors — the doors in the bow of a ferry, which open for vehicles to drive on and off
  • bow shock — the shock front along which the solar wind encounters a planet's magnetic field.
  • bowelless — ruthless, merciless
  • bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
  • brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
  • brassware — articles made of brass, considered as a group
  • bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
  • brewhouse — a brewery
  • broadwise — breadthwise
  • browsable — able to be browsed
  • brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
  • brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
  • brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
  • bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
  • bushwhack — to ambush
  • bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
  • busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
  • busy-wait — (programming)   To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
  • busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
  • byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
  • cableways — Plural form of cableway.
  • cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
  • callowest — Superlative form of callow.
  • cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
  • carraways — Plural form of carraway.
  • case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
  • caseworms — Plural form of caseworm.
  • cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
  • cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
  • cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
  • cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
  • castaways — Plural form of castaway.
  • cat's paw — a person used to serve the purposes of another; tool.
  • cat's-paw — a person used by another as a tool; dupe
  • causeways — Plural form of causeway.
  • cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
  • chain saw — A chain saw is a big saw with teeth fixed in a chain that is driven round by a motor.
  • chain-saw — to cut or cut down (lumber, a tree, etc.) with a chain saw.
  • chainsaws — Plural form of chainsaw.
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