9-letter words containing w, a, s, i
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
- 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.
- hawsepipe — an iron or steel pipe in the stem or bow of a vessel through which an anchor cable passes.
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- in a stew — agitated, flustered
- jigsawing — Present participle of jigsaw.
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kilowatts — Plural form of kilowatt.
- kinswoman — a female relative.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- lacewings — Plural form of lacewing.
- lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
- leastwise — at least; at any rate.
- mackinaws — Plural form of mackinaw.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- midas-www — (web) A Motif-based browser for WWW based on the Midas toolkit.
- mishawaka — a city in N Indiana, near South Bend.
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- narrowish — somewhat narrow
- new spain — the former Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere, at one time including South America (except Brazil), Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, Florida, and most of the land in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River.
- newmanism — the views and theories of John Henry Newman before his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, in which he held that the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England are compatible with Roman Catholicism.
- 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.
- piss away — urine.
- plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
- sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
- salic law — a code of laws of the Salian Franks and other Germanic tribes, especially a provision in this code excluding females from the inheritance of land.
- satinwood — the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used especially for making furniture.
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- sei whale — a rorqual, Balaenoptera borealis, inhabiting all seas: now greatly reduced in number.
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- 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.
- shoalwise — in shoals or large groups
- sidewalks — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewards — towards one side
- sign away — a token; indication.
- sine wave — a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine function.
- sioux war — any of a series of skirmishes or wars between the Sioux Indians and settlers or the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1890.
- slantwise — aslant; obliquely.
- slow gait — (of a horse) a slow rack.