9-letter words containing u, a, w
- watch out — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- watchouts — the act of looking out for or anticipating something; lookout: Keep a watchout for dishonest behavior.
- water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- water cut — The water cut is the ratio of the water which is produced in a well compared to the volume of the total liquids produced.
- water gum — any of several Australian trees of the myrtle family, growing near water.
- water gun — water pistol.
- water-bus — vaporetto.
- waterbuck — any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
- waterbury — a city in W Connecticut.
- watt-hour — a unit of energy equal to the energy of one watt operating for one hour, equivalent to 3600 joules. Abbreviation: Wh.
- waulkmill — a cloth-fulling mill
- wauwatosa — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- waveguide — a conduit, as a metal tube, coaxial cable, or strand of glass fibers, used as a conductor or directional transmitter for various kinds of electromagnetic waves.
- westabout — in, to, or towards the west
- whack out — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- wieschaus — Eric, born 1947, U.S.-born biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- wiradjuri — an Australian Aboriginal language, spoken over a wide area of central New South Wales.
- woundable — Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.
- wrapround — made so as to be wrapped round something
- wunderbar — wonderful
- wuppertal — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, in the Ruhr Valley: formed by the union of Barmen, Elberfeld, and smaller communities 1929.
- zugzwangs — Plural form of zugzwang.