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9-letter words containing u, a, w

  • kwangtung — Older Spelling. Guangdong.
  • law court — court of law.
  • luftwaffe — air force.
  • lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
  • malus-law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
  • meadowrue — A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum.
  • milwaukee — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • milwaukie — a town in NW Oregon.
  • mouthwash — a solution, often containing antiseptic, astringent, and breath-sweetening agents, used for cleansing the mouth and teeth, and for gargling.
  • mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
  • muley saw — a saw having a long, stiff blade that is not stretched in a gate, but whose motion is directed by clamps at each end mounted on guide rails.
  • multiwall — having a wall or casing composed of layers of material, often pressed closely together: multiwall bags for shipping grain.
  • mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
  • new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
  • newsqueak — A concurrent applicative language with synchronous channels.
  • no wukkas — an expression used to express agreement or to convey that something is proceeding or has proceeded satisfactorily; no problem
  • old squaw — a sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, of arctic and subarctic regions.
  • oldsquaws — Plural form of oldsquaw.
  • opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
  • outerwear — garments, as raincoats or overcoats, worn over other clothing for warmth or protection outdoors; overclothes.
  • outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
  • outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
  • outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
  • outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
  • paulownia — a Japanese tree, Paulownia tomentosa, of the bignonia family, having showy clusters of pale-violet or blue flowers blossoming in early spring.
  • pawtucket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • plug away — keep working on sth
  • pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
  • pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
  • pull away — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • quadwords — Plural form of quadword.
  • quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
  • rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
  • raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
  • rewardful — offering reward; rewarding
  • rust away — When a metal object rusts away, it is gradually weakened and destroyed by rust.
  • shut away — keep confined
  • sioux war — any of a series of skirmishes or wars between the Sioux Indians and settlers or the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1890.
  • sluiceway — a channel controlled by a sluice gate.
  • sound law — phonetic law.
  • southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
  • southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
  • squaw man — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white or other non-Indian man married to a North American Indian woman.
  • squawbush — a rank-smelling, sprawling shrub, Rhus trilobata malacophylla, of the cashew family, native to California, having spikes of greenish flowers.
  • squawfish — any of several large, voracious cyprinid fishes of the genus Ptychocheilus, inhabiting rivers of the western U.S. and Canada: the Colorado squawfish, P. lucius, is endangered.
  • squawking — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
  • squawroot — a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
  • subwarden — an assistant to a warden, a deputy or subordinate warden
  • suka wena — an expression of dismissal or rejection; go away
  • superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
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