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

  • shadowily — in a shadowy way or manner
  • 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.
  • shallower — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • shallowly — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • shapewear — undergarments designed to mold or hold a body to a certain shape, as girdles.
  • shareware — software distributed without initial charge but for which the user is encouraged to pay a nominal fee to cover support for continued use.
  • shawlless — lacking, or not wearing, a shawl
  • sheepwalk — a tract of land on which sheep are pastured.
  • shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
  • shewbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
  • shoalwise — in shoals or large groups
  • shockwave — (tool)   A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
  • shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
  • shoreward — Also, shorewards. toward the shore or land.
  • 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.
  • shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • show card — an advertising placard or card.
  • show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
  • showbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
  • showcased — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
  • showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
  • showmanly — characteristic of a showman
  • showplace — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
  • shut away — keep confined
  • skew arch — an arch, as at the entrance to a tunnel, having sides, or jambs, that are not at right angles with the face.
  • slash-saw — plain-saw.
  • slowcoach — a slowpoke.
  • southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
  • southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
  • speechway — a pattern, style, or feature of spoken language shared by the people of a particular group or area.
  • 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.
  • stalworth — stalwart.
  • stay with — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
  • stonewash — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
  • straw hat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
  • straw-hat — designating, of, or having to do with a summer theater or summer theaters
  • swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
  • swap shop — a store or shop where items, especially secondhand ones, are traded or sold.
  • swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
  • swashwork — a type of work done on a lathe, which is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation of the work
  • sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
  • swellhead — a vain or arrogant person.
  • switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
  • talk show — a radio or television show in which a host interviews or chats with guests, especially celebrity guests.
  • tallowish — resembling tallow; tallow-like
  • the swanz — the women's international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the waves — the sea
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