9-letter words containing t, w, e
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hot water — trouble; a predicament: His skipping classes will get him into real hot water when exam time comes.
- how then? — what is the meaning of this?
- howitzers — Plural form of howitzer.
- howtowdie — a Scottish dish of boiled chicken with poached eggs and spinach
- ice water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- ice-water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- in a stew — agitated, flustered
- inbetween — Usually, betweens. a short needle with a rounded eye and a sharp point, used for fine hand stitchery in heavy fabric.
- inbetwixt — (archaic) between; in between.
- interflow — to flow into each other; intermingle.
- intergrow — to grow among each other
- intertown — Between towns.
- interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- interwebs — Plural form of interweb.
- interwind — Wind together.
- interwork — to work or weave together; interweave.
- interwove — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- inwreathe — enwreathe.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- jointweed — a plant of the buckwheat family, with jointed stems and clustered white or pink flowers
- jonestown — a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.
- kittiwake — either of two small, pearl-gray gulls of the genus Rissa, the black-legged R. tridactyla of the North Atlantic and the red-legged and red-billed R. brevirostris, of the Bering Sea, both nesting on narrow cliff ledges and having a rudimentary hind toe.
- knotweeds — Plural form of knotweed.
- know best — to be the best guide, authority, etc.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- late wood — summerwood.
- late-wake — a lyke-wake
- law agent — (in Scotland) a solicitor holding a certificate from the Law Society of Scotland and thereby entitled to appear for a client in any Sheriff Court
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
- leastwise — at least; at any rate.
- left wing — members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform.
- left-wing — members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- leibowitz — René [ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1913–1972, French conductor and composer, born in Poland.
- levittown — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- lightwell — (architecture) An open shaft that transmits light from above into a staircase or an inner room.
- lime twig — a twig smeared with birdlime to catch birds.
- limewater — an aqueous solution of slaked lime, used in medicine, antacids, and lotions, and to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
- linewidth — (physics) a measure of the width of the band of frequencies of radiation emitted or absorbed in an atomic or molecular transition; a result of the uncertainty principle.
- lintwhite — the linnet, Carduelis cannabina.
- litz wire — a wire used as a conductor of alternating current, composed of a number of insulated strands woven together to reduce skin effect.
- live with — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- liverwort — any mosslike plant of the class Hepaticae, growing chiefly on damp ground, rocks, or on tree trunks and helping the decay of logs and the disintegration of rocks.
- 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.