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9-letter words containing w, a, r, o, l

  • last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
  • law court — court of law.
  • law lords — (in Britain) members of the House of Lords who sit as the highest court of appeal, although in theory the full House of Lords has this role
  • lawmonger — an inferior lawyer
  • lawnmower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
  • leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
  • leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
  • loan word — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
  • loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
  • low board — a diving board 1 meter (3.2 feet) above the water.
  • low brass — an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.
  • low water — water at its lowest level, as in a river.
  • low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
  • lower jaw — the mandible or lower part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. In higher vertebrates the lower jaw is fused to the cranium and the upper jaw
  • lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
  • lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
  • mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
  • mealworms — Plural form of mealworm.
  • metalwork — objects made of metal.
  • mold-warp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • nanoworld — The sphere of influence of nanotechnology.
  • navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
  • nonlawyer — a person who is not a lawyer
  • orwellian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
  • outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
  • pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
  • plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
  • plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
  • polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
  • poor laws — laws that provide for public relief and assistance for the poor
  • powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
  • prowl car — squad car.
  • railwoman — a female worker on a railway
  • rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
  • rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
  • reswallow — to swallow again
  • rock wall — rock fence.
  • 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.
  • safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
  • saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
  • scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
  • shallower — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
  • stalworth — stalwart.
  • swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
  • swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
  • ultraslow — extremely slow
  • walk over — If someone walks over you, they treat you very badly.
  • walker-on — someone who has a small part in a play or theatrical entertainment, esp one without any lines
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