9-letter words containing w, a, s, t, r
- 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.
- slew rate — the rate at which an electronic amplifier can respond to an abrupt change of input level
- smartweed — any of several weeds of the genus Polygonum, having a smarting, acrid juice.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- squawroot — a fleshy, leafless plant, Conopholis americana, of the broomrape family, native to eastern North America, having a stout, yellowish, conelike stalk of lipped flowers, and growing in clusters, especially under oaks.
- stairwell — the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.
- stairwise — by steps or in the manner of steps
- stairwork — unseen plotting
- stalworth — stalwart.
- star wars — a U.S. weapons research program begun in 1984 to explore technologies, including ground- and space-based lasers, for destroying attacking missiles and warheads.
- steelware — products made from steel
- sternward — toward the stern; astern.
- stewarded — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stewardry — the office or position of a steward or overseer
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- stoneware — a hard, opaque, vitrified ceramic ware.
- stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- strapwort — a seaside plant with leaves resembling straps
- straw hat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
- straw man — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- straw-hat — designating, of, or having to do with a summer theater or summer theaters
- strawless — without a straw or without straw
- strawworm — caddisworm.
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
- swartzite — a hydrous carbonate of calcium, magnesium, and uranium, occurring in green crystals: an ore of uranium.
- swear out — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- 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.
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- taperwise — in the manner of a taper
- task-work — work assigned or imposed as a task.
- tow-start — the act of making the engine of a vehicle begin to work by towing that vehicle with another vehicle
- ullswater — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 12 km (7.5 miles)
- ultraslow — extremely slow
- wadsetter — a person who takes out a mortgage
- wadsworth — a city in N Ohio.
- war chest — money set aside or scheduled for a particular purpose or activity, as for a political campaign or organizational drive.
- war story — an account or anecdote concerning one's personal experiences, especially in military combat, during a war.
- wardmotes — Plural form of wardmote.
- warm spot — Physiology. a sensory area in the skin that responds to an increase in temperature.
- warmouths — Plural form of warmouth.
- wasterful — Lb obsolete wasteful.
- wasteweir — A weir that allows the escape of excess water from a canal or reservoir.
- water ash — hoptree.
- water gas — a toxic gaseous mixture consisting chiefly of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, prepared from steam and incandescent coke: used as an illuminant, fuel, and in organic synthesis.
- water-bus — vaporetto.
- water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.