9-letter words containing w, e, i, r, s
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- schwinger — Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1965.
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- semiworks — a manufacturing plant equipped to develop and manufacture a new product in small quantities prior to full-scale manufacture
- sewerlike — resembling a sewer
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- shipwreck — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shoreview — a town in E Minnesota.
- shrewlike — a woman of violent temper and speech; termagant.
- sidewards — towards one side
- skewering — a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
- slow fire — a rate of firing small arms that allows time to aim before each shot.
- snow tire — an automobile tire with a deep tread or protruding studs to give increased traction on snow or ice.
- snow-tire — an automobile tire with a deep tread or protruding studs to give increased traction on snow or ice.
- spiderweb — to cover with a spider web or fine lines resembling a spider web.
- spirewise — in the manner of a spire
- stairwell — the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.
- stairwise — by steps or in the manner of steps
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- storewide — applying to all the merchandise or all the departments within a store: the annual storewide clearance sale.
- subwriter — a person carrying out writing tasks for another writer
- superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
- superwide — a wide-angle camera lens
- superwife — a highly accomplished wife
- swartzite — a hydrous carbonate of calcium, magnesium, and uranium, occurring in green crystals: an ore of uranium.
- sweirness — the state of being slothful
- swimmeret — (in many crustaceans) one of a number of abdominal limbs or appendages, usually adapted for swimming and for carrying eggs, as distinguished from other limbs adapted for walking or seizing.
- swinburne — Algernon Charles, 1837–1909, English poet and critic.
- swineherd — a person who tends swine.
- swingover — a shift or transfer in attitude, opinion, or the like.
- swingtree — a whiffletree.
- taperwise — in the manner of a taper
- waggeries — Plural form of waggery.
- wassailer — One who wassails.
- wasteweir — A weir that allows the escape of excess water from a canal or reservoir.
- water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
- waterings — Plural form of watering.
- waterside — the margin, bank, or shore of a river, lake, ocean, etc.
- waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.
- wear ship — to change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
- weariless — unwearying; tireless: a weariless vigil.
- weariness — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
- wearisome — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weirdness — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
- weissbier — A Bavarian specialty beer in which a significant proportion of malted barley is replaced with malted wheat.
- weisshorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Alps. 14,804 feet (4512 meters).
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- werelions — Plural form of werelion.