9-letter words containing w, e, m
- multiview — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- new broom — Someone who has just started a new job and who is expected to make a lot of changes can be referred to as a new broom.
- 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 money — money and wealth that has not been inherited
- 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)
- newcomers — Plural form of newcomer.
- newmanism — the views and theories of John Henry Newman before his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, in which he held that the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England are compatible with Roman Catholicism.
- newmanite — an adherent of John Henry Newman.
- newmanize — to adopt or follow Newmanism.
- newmarket — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto.
- news film — a film showing main events in the news
- news item — story featured in the news
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
- newsrooms — Plural form of newsroom.
- newswoman — a woman employed to gather news, as for a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television news bureau.
- newswomen — Plural form of newswoman.
- nimblewit — an alert, bright, and clever person
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- one-woman — used, operated, performed, etc., by one woman: a one-woman show.
- overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- 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.
- raw umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- screwworm — the larva of any of certain flies of the genus Callitroga, which sometimes infests wounds and the nose and navel of domestic animals and humans.
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- semisweet — somewhat sweet; containing a small amount of sweetening: a semisweet cookie; semisweet chocolate.
- semivowel — Phonetics. a speech sound of vowel quality used as a consonant, as (w) in wet or (y) in yet.
- semiworks — a manufacturing plant equipped to develop and manufacture a new product in small quantities prior to full-scale manufacture
- showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
- slow time — standard time.
- smartweed — any of several weeds of the genus Polygonum, having a smarting, acrid juice.
- smethwick — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
- somewhere — in or at some place not specified, determined, or known: They live somewhere in Michigan.
- somewhile — at some former time.
- stew meat — Stew meat is the same as stewing steak.
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- strewment — something strewed or intended for strewing, as flowers.
- swap meet — a fair or bazaar where objects, usually secondhand, are bartered or sold.
- swat team — A SWAT team is a group of policemen who have been specially trained to deal with very dangerous or violent situations. SWAT is an abbreviation for 'Special Weapons and Tactics'.
- sweet gum — a tall, aromatic tree, Liquidambar styraciflua, of the eastern U.S., having star-shaped leaves and fruits in rounded, burlike clusters.
- sweetmeal — (of biscuits) sweet and wholemeal
- sweetmeat — a sweet delicacy, prepared with sugar, honey, or the like, as preserves, candy, or, formerly, cakes or pastry.
- 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.
- the woman — feminine nature or feelings
- time warp — a hypothetical eccentricity in the progress of time that would allow movement back and forth between eras or that would permit the passage of time to be suspended.