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9-letter words containing w, a, n, s

  • newsflash — flash (def 6).
  • newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
  • newspaper — a publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, especially daily or weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising.
  • newsqueak — A concurrent applicative language with synchronous channels.
  • newsstand — a stall or other place at which newspapers and often periodicals are sold, as on a street corner or in a building lobby.
  • newstrade — newspaper retail as a whole
  • newswoman — a woman employed to gather news, as for a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television news bureau.
  • no wukkas — an expression used to express agreement or to convey that something is proceeding or has proceeded satisfactorily; no problem
  • nonanswer — The lack of an answer.
  • oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
  • oarswoman — A female rower, especially as a member of a racing team.
  • oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
  • panel saw — a small ripsaw or crosscut saw.
  • pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
  • pawn shop — shop that makes loans on personal property
  • penis war — (jargon, abuse)   (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
  • phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
  • plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
  • postwoman — female postal worker
  • rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
  • rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
  • re-answer — to answer (a question, etc) again
  • rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
  • sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
  • sag wagon — a support vehicle accompanying a bicycle touring group that carries spare parts, luggage, etc., and sometimes also transports bicycles and cyclists.
  • sand wasp — any of certain sphecid wasps of the subfamily Bembicinae that nest in the ground and are common along the seashore.
  • sapanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
  • satinwood — the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used especially for making furniture.
  • scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
  • scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
  • screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
  • self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • send away — dismiss
  • shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shakedown — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
  • showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
  • showmanly — characteristic of a showman
  • sign away — a token; indication.
  • sine wave — a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine function.
  • slag down — to give a verbal lashing to
  • slantways — aslant; obliquely.
  • slantwise — aslant; obliquely.
  • slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • slow lane — On a motorway or freeway, the slow lane is the lane for vehicles which are moving more slowly than the other vehicles.
  • smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
  • snakeweed — bistort (def 1).
  • snakewise — in a snake-like manner
  • snakewood — the heavy, dark-red wood of a South American tree, Piratinera guianensis, used for decorative veneers, musical instrument bows, etc.
  • snow bank — a long raised mass of fallen snow
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