9-letter words containing w, e, a
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- lowballed — Simple past tense and past participle of lowball.
- lower jaw — the mandible or lower part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. In higher vertebrates the lower jaw is fused to the cranium and the upper jaw
- 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.
- lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- luftwaffe — air force.
- lyke-wake — a watch held over a dead person, often with festivities
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- mag wheel — a wheel containing magnesium or aluminum generally alloyed with steel, which makes it lighter in weight and shinier than an ordinary steel wheel: used especially on racing cars and sports cars.
- mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
- make away — to depart in haste
- make news — to do something that is apt to be reported as news
- make with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make-work — work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.
- 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.
- man power — the power supplied by human physical exertions: an ancient building constructed entirely by man power.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- meadowrue — A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum.
- mealworms — Plural form of mealworm.
- meanwhile — meantime.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- megawatts — Plural form of megawatt.
- melt away — thaw
- meltwater — water from melted snow or ice.
- metalware — work of metal, especially utensils, flatware, etc.
- metalwork — objects made of metal.
- 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
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- milwaukee — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- milwaukie — a town in NW Oregon.
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- moose jaw — a city in S Saskatchewan, in SW Canada.
- move away — relocate, go to live elsewhere
- 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.
- navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
- new haven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- new latin — the Latin that became current, notably in scientific literature, after the Renaissance, c1500. Abbreviation: NL, NL., N.L.
- 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 media — developing forms of media, usually electronic, regarded as being experimental.
- 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.
- newchwang — Niuzhuang.