9-letter words containing w, e, n, o
- freewoman — a woman who is free or at liberty, esp one who is not a slave or serf
- frontwise — Toward the front; in the direction of the front; frontward.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- 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.
- 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
- glendower — Owen, 1359?–1416? Welsh rebel against Henry IV of England.
- glowering — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- 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
- greenwood — a city in W South Carolina.
- grewhound — a greyhound
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- gwendolyn — a female given name: from a Welsh word meaning “white.”.
- halesowen — a town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 273 (2001)
- halloween — the evening of October 31; the eve of All Saints' Day; Allhallows Eve: observed especially by children in costumes who solicit treats, often by threatening minor pranks.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- handwoven — made on a handloom; handloomed.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- hansetown — Hansa (def 3).
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- heronshaw — a heron
- home news — news of events in the home country, as opposed to foreign news
- home town — town or city where one grew up
- homegrown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
- homeowner — a person who owns a home.
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hose down — spray sth clean
- how then? — what is the meaning of this?
- in escrow — a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
- in flower — When a plant is in flower or when it has come into flower, its flowers have appeared and opened.
- inglewood — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- interflow — to flow into each other; intermingle.
- intergrow — to grow among each other
- intertown — Between towns.
- interwork — to work or weave together; interweave.
- interwove — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jane cowl — Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.
- jazzwomen — Plural form of jazzwoman.
- jobernowl — a stupid person; blockhead
- jointweed — a plant of the buckwheat family, with jointed stems and clustered white or pink flowers
- jonestown — a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.
- jowliness — the feature of having large jowls or a prominent jaw