9-letter words containing w, e, a, r
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- narrowest — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
- 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 start — an employee who has just joined a company or organization
- newgrange — the largest of three mound-covered passage graves on the river Boyne in county Meath, Ireland, built c3000 b.c., having a corbeled roof and hammered geometric engravings and containing traces of cremation burials.
- newmarket — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto.
- newsboard — bulletin board.
- newsbreak — a newsworthy event or incident.
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
- newspaper — a publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, especially daily or weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising.
- newstrade — newspaper retail as a whole
- nightwear — night clothes.
- nonanswer — The lack of an answer.
- nonlawyer — a person who is not a lawyer
- norwegian — of or relating to Norway, its inhabitants, or their language.
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- orwellian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
- outerwear — garments, as raincoats or overcoats, worn over other clothing for warmth or protection outdoors; overclothes.
- outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
- overawing — Present participle of overawe.
- overdrawn — Past participle of overdraw.
- overdraws — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdraw.
- overswear — to swear again
- overwatch — to watch over.
- overwater — to give too much water to
- overweary — excessively weary; tired out.
- paperware — printed matter or items made of paper
- paperwork — written or clerical work, as records or reports, forming a necessary but often a routine and secondary part of some work or job.
- pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
- 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.
- perp walk — an arranged public appearance of a recently arrested criminal for the benefit of the media
- plateware — household dishes, especially ones made of or plated with gold or silver.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
- power mac — (computer) Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
- power nap — a short sleep taken during the working day with the intention of improving the quality of work later in the day
- power-saw — to cut with a power saw.
- powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
- prewarned — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- price war — intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
- race-walk — to participate in race walking.
- rainbowed — containing, resembling, or involving a rainbow
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rainwater — (Leo) James, 1917–86, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1975.
- raw score — the original score, as of a test, before it is statistically adjusted.