9-letter words containing t, w, o, s
- fowl pest — an acute and usually fatal viral disease of domestic fowl, characterized by refusal to eat, high temperature, and discoloration of the comb and wattles
- frontwise — Toward the front; in the direction of the front; frontward.
- frostweed — a plant, Helianthemum canadense, of the rockrose family, native to eastern North America, having narrow leaves and a solitary yellow flower.
- frostwork — the delicate tracery formed by frost, especially on glass.
- ghostview — An X Window System interface to the ghostscript PostScript interpreter.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- glasswort — any of several plants of the genus Salicornia, of the amaranth family, having succulent stems with rudimentary leaves, formerly used, when burned to ashes, as a source of soda for glassmaking.
- glowstick — Alternative spelling of glow stick.
- goffstown — a town in S New Hampshire.
- growthist — an advocate of the importance of economic growth
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- hansetown — Hansa (def 3).
- hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
- hollowest — Superlative form of hollow.
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- hornworts — Plural form of hornwort.
- howitzers — Plural form of howitzer.
- ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jobsworth — (chiefly, British) A minor worker who refuses to be flexible in the application of rules to help a client or customer.
- johnstown — a city in SW Pennsylvania: disastrous flood 1889.
- 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.
- kilowatts — Plural form of kilowatt.
- kingstown — an island state in the S Windward Islands, in the SE West Indies comprising St. Vincent island and the N Grenadines: gained independence 1979. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km). Capital: Kingstown.
- 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
- last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- 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.
- lower set — (mathematics) A finite non-empty downward closed subset of a partial order.
- lowermost — lowest1 .
- lowestoft — a seaport in NE Suffolk, in E England: famous for a type of china.
- lowlights — Plural form of lowlight.
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- lwd tools — LWD tools are tools which have sensors to record information about rock formation during drilling.
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- meltdowns — Plural form of meltdown.
- milkworts — Plural form of milkwort.
- misbestow — to bestow wrongly
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- motorways — Plural form of motorway.
- 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.
- narrowest — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- nonwhites — Plural form of nonwhite.