9-letter words containing w, a, s, h
- hawkbills — Plural form of hawkbill.
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawksbill — A small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.
- hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
- hawkweeds — Plural form of hawkweed.
- hawsehole — a hole in the stem or bow of a vessel for an anchor cable.
- hawsepipe — an iron or steel pipe in the stem or bow of a vessel through which an anchor cable passes.
- hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
- headwards — backwards beyond the original source
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- heatwaves — Plural form of heatwave.
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- hellwards — towards hell
- heronshaw — a heron
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- hold sway — have influence
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- houseware — Homeware.
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- leash law — a local ordinance requiring that dogs be leashed when not on their owners' property.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- mishawaka — a city in N Indiana, near South Bend.
- mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.
- mouthwash — a solution, often containing antiseptic, astringent, and breath-sweetening agents, used for cleansing the mouth and teeth, and for gargling.
- narrowish — somewhat narrow
- new maths — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- newsflash — flash (def 6).
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- ohm's law — the law that for any circuit the electric current is directly proportional to the voltage and is inversely proportional to the resistance.
- outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
- pawn shop — shop that makes loans on personal property
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- prop wash — propeller wash.
- road show — touring performance or display
- road-show — of or relating to road shows.
- screwhead — the head or top of a screw having a slot for the end of a screwdriver.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- sei whale — a rorqual, Balaenoptera borealis, inhabiting all seas: now greatly reduced in number.
- shadowbox — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.