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9-letter words containing w, e, g

  • flyweight — a boxer or other contestant of the lightest competitive class, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 112 pounds (51 kg).
  • foreweigh — to assess in advance
  • forewings — Plural form of forewing.
  • gallowses — Plural form of gallows.
  • galwegian — of or relating to the region of Galloway, Scotland.
  • game away — to squander or lose in gambling
  • game fowl — a domestic fowl of a breed much used for fighting.
  • game laws — a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.
  • game show — a television or radio program in which contestants answer questions or play games of skill or chance in order to win money or other prizes.
  • garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
  • gawkiness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
  • gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
  • gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
  • gearwheel — a wheel having teeth or cogs that engage with those of another wheel or part; cogwheel.
  • gene flow — the alteration of the frequencies of alleles of particular genes in a population, resulting from interbreeding with organisms from another population having different frequencies.
  • get wrong — be mistaken about sth
  • ghostview — An X Window System interface to the ghostscript PostScript interpreter.
  • give away — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • giveaways — Plural form of giveaway.
  • glassware — Ornaments and articles made from glass.
  • glendower — Owen, 1359?–1416? Welsh rebel against Henry IV of England.
  • glowering — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
  • goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
  • good news — someone or something that is positive, encouraging, uplifting, desirable, or the like.
  • goosedown — Down from a goose.
  • goosewing — the weather clew of a square sail, held taut when the lee side of the sail is furled.
  • gowpenful — an amount that can be contained in cupped hands
  • grandview — a town in W Missouri.
  • graveward — moving towards the grave or death
  • graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
  • graywater — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
  • great war — the war fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, between the Central Powers and the Allies, beginning on July 28, 1914, and ending on November 11, 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers. Abbreviation: WWI.
  • greenaway — Kate (Catherine) 1846–1901, English painter and author and illustrator of children's books.
  • greenlawn — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • greenward — Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
  • greenware — (ceramics, usually, uncountable) Pottery that has been shaped but not yet fired, especially while it is drying prior to being fireable.
  • greenwash — Disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.
  • greenways — Plural form of greenway.
  • greenweed — Any of several plants, of the genus Genista, related to broom.
  • greenwich — a borough in SE London, England: located on the prime meridian from which geographic longitude is measured; formerly the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
  • greenwing — the common teal, Anas crecca
  • greenwood — a city in W South Carolina.
  • grewhound — a greyhound
  • grey-wave — denoting a company or an investment that is potentially profitable but is unlikely to fulfil expectations before the investor has grey hair
  • greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
  • greywater — Alternative spelling of gray water.
  • gromwells — Plural form of gromwell.
  • groupware — software that allows users on a network to work together and communicate effectively: Our company uses groupware to share files, databases, calendars, and email.
  • groupwise — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
  • grunewald — Mathias [mah-tee-ahs] /mɑˈti ɑs/ (Show IPA), (Mathias Neithardt-Gothardt) c1470–1528, German painter and architect.
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