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9-letter words containing t, o, h, w

  • right now — at this precise moment
  • seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
  • shootdown — the attack and destruction of an aircraft in flight.
  • shortgown — a short-skirted dress worn by women doing housework
  • shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
  • shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
  • shut down — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
  • smithtown — a city on N Long Island, in SE New York.
  • southdown — one of an English breed of sheep, yielding mutton of high quality.
  • southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
  • southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
  • southwell — Saint Robert. ?1561–95, English poet and Roman Catholic martyr, who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed for his Jesuit activities. His best-known poem is 'The Burning Babe'
  • southwest — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
  • stalworth — stalwart.
  • stonewash — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
  • swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
  • sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
  • sweetshop — a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets
  • switch on — the act or process of switching on an ignition, light, appliance, etc.
  • switch-on — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
  • talk show — a radio or television show in which a host interviews or chats with guests, especially celebrity guests.
  • tallowish — resembling tallow; tallow-like
  • tent show — an exhibition or performance, especially a circus, presented in a tent.
  • the crowd — the common people; the masses
  • the gower — a peninsula in S Wales, in Swansea county on the Bristol Channel: mainly agricultural with several resorts
  • the sword — violence, warfare
  • the wagon — Charles's Wain
  • the wolds — a range of chalk hills in NE England: consists of the Yorkshire Wolds to the north, separated from the Lincolnshire Wolds by the Humber estuary
  • the woman — feminine nature or feelings
  • the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • the worst — the least good or most inferior person, thing, or part in a group, narrative, etc
  • the-downs — a range of low ridges in S and SW England.
  • thin down — become slimmer
  • throw off — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • throw out — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • throw rug — scatter rug.
  • throwaway — made or intended to be discarded after use or quick examination: a throwaway container; a throwaway brochure.
  • throwback — an act of throwing back.
  • throwdown — challenge to a physical or artistic competition
  • throwover — designed to fit loosely over an object without being tied to it
  • throwster — a person who throws silk or synthetic filaments.
  • toothwash — a tooth-cleaning liquid
  • toothwort — a European plant, Lathraea squamaria, of the broomrape family, having a rootstock covered with toothlike scales.
  • top whack — the maximum price
  • torchwood — any of various resinous woods suitable for making torches, as the wood of the tree Amyris balsamifera, of the rue family, native to Florida and the West Indies.
  • touchdown — Football. an act or instance of scoring six points by being in possession of the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line.
  • touchwood — wood converted into an easily ignitible substance by the action of certain fungi, and used as tinder; punk.
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