9-letter words containing w, a, s
- bedstraws — Plural form of bedstraw.
- beeswaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of beeswax.
- beeswaxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beeswax.
- blackwash — to present (someone or something) in the worst possible light
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
- brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
- brassware — articles made of brass, considered as a group
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- broadwise — breadthwise
- browsable — able to be browsed
- bushwhack — to ambush
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- callowest — Superlative form of callow.
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- carraways — Plural form of carraway.
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- caseworms — Plural form of caseworm.
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
- cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- castaways — Plural form of castaway.
- cat's paw — a person used to serve the purposes of another; tool.
- cat's-paw — a person used by another as a tool; dupe
- causeways — Plural form of causeway.
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chain saw — A chain saw is a big saw with teeth fixed in a chain that is driven round by a motor.
- chain-saw — to cut or cut down (lumber, a tree, etc.) with a chain saw.
- chainsaws — Plural form of chainsaw.
- chat show — A chat show is a television or radio show in which people talk in a friendly, informal way about different topics.
- chickasaw — a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi
- cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- clearways — Plural form of clearway.
- coastward — towards the coast
- coastwise — along the coast
- cockswain — coxswain
- coleslaws — Plural form of coleslaw.
- colorways — Plural form of colorway.
- corn laws — the laws introduced in Britain in 1804 to protect domestic farmers against foreign competition by the imposition of a heavy duty on foreign corn: repealed in 1846
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon