9-letter words containing w, a, n, o, r
- power nap — a short sleep taken during the working day with the intention of improving the quality of work later in the day
- railwoman — a female worker on a railway
- rainbowed — containing, resembling, or involving a rainbow
- ramp down — decrease effort, work
- raw-boned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
- road town — a town on SE Tortola, in the NE West Indies: capital of the British Virgin Islands.
- roman law — the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries.
- rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- snowboard — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
- stoneware — a hard, opaque, vitrified ceramic ware.
- stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
- swordsman — a person who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
- tarrytown — a village in SE New York, on the Hudson River: restored home of Washington Irving.
- tear down — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
- tirewoman — a lady's maid.
- wagoneers — Plural form of wagoneer.
- walker-on — someone who has a small part in a play or theatrical entertainment, esp one without any lines
- wandorobo — Dorobo.
- warbonnet — Alternative spelling of war bonnet.
- warm down — If you warm down after doing a physical activity, you do special exercises to help relax your muscles and joints.
- warm tone — a yellow, brown, olive, or reddish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- warm-down — a tapering off or recovery from strenuous physical exercise, especially running or racing, by slowing down or doing light stretches.
- warmonger — a person who advocates, endorses, or tries to precipitate war.
- warrantor — a person who warrants or makes a warranty.
- watertown — a town in E Massachusetts, on the Charles River, near Boston: U.S. arsenal.
- waterworn — worn by the action of water; smoothed by the force or movement of water.
- watterson — Henry ("Marse Henry") 1840–1921, U.S. journalist and political leader.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- weaponeer — Military. a person who prepares an atomic bomb for detonation.
- wear down — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- werowance — (historical) A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland.
- womaniser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanizer.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- woodgrain — a material or finish that imitates the natural grain of wood in pattern, color, and sometimes texture.
- woomerang — boomerang.
- workmanly — Befitting a workman; skilful; workmanlike.
- workwoman — a female worker.
- wrapround — made so as to be wrapped round something
- wronskian — the determinant of order n associated with a set of n functions, in which the first row consists of the functions, the second row consists of the first derivatives of the functions, the third row consists of their second derivatives, and so on.