9-letter words containing w, a, s
- leash law — a local ordinance requiring that dogs be leashed when not on their owners' property.
- leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
- leastwise — at least; at any rate.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
- low brass — an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.
- low-class — vulgar, coarse, or undignified
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- mackinaws — Plural form of mackinaw.
- make news — to do something that is apt to be reported as news
- malus-law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- malware's — software intended to damage a computer, mobile device, computer system, or computer network, or to take partial control over its operation: tips on finding and removing viruses, spyware, and other malware.
- markdowns — Plural form of markdown.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marrowsky — spoonerism
- 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.
- mealworms — Plural form of mealworm.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- megawatts — Plural form of megawatt.
- mews flat — a flat or apartment situated in a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings
- 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.
- mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.
- moonwalks — Plural form of moonwalk.
- moonwards — towards the moon
- moose jaw — a city in S Saskatchewan, in SW Canada.
- motorways — Plural form of motorway.
- mouthwash — a solution, often containing antiseptic, astringent, and breath-sweetening agents, used for cleansing the mouth and teeth, and for gargling.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- muley saw — a saw having a long, stiff blade that is not stretched in a gate, but whose motion is directed by clamps at each end mounted on guide rails.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- narrowest — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- 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.
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- 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.
- new start — an employee who has just joined a company or organization
- newcastle — 1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
- 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.
- news case — one of a pair of wooden, metal, or plastic trays divided into compartments for the sorting of type. Compare case2 (def 8).
- news-beat — beat (def 40b).
- newsagent — newsdealer.
- newsboard — bulletin board.
- newsbreak — a newsworthy event or incident.
- newscasts — Plural form of newscast.
- newsflash — flash (def 6).