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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.
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