9-letter words containing w, e, r, o
- isherwood — Christopher (William Bradshaw) [brad-shaw] /ˈbræd ʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, English poet, novelist, and playwright; in the U.S. since 1938.
- jobernowl — a stupid person; blockhead
- jurywomen — Plural form of jurywoman.
- keyworker — The keyworker for a particular group of clients or patients is the person who works with them most closely and has most responsibility for them.
- landowner — an owner or proprietor of land.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- lawmonger — an inferior lawyer
- lawnmower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- lifeworld — All the immediate experiences, activities, and contacts that make up the world of an individual or corporate life.
- liverwort — any mosslike plant of the class Hepaticae, growing chiefly on damp ground, rocks, or on tree trunks and helping the decay of logs and the disintegration of rocks.
- lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
- low rider — an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
- low water — water at its lowest level, as in a river.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- low-power — (of a radio station) having the power to broadcast to a radius of only 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 km).
- 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
- lower leg — the lower part of your leg between your ankle and your knee
- lower set — (mathematics) A finite non-empty downward closed subset of a partial order.
- 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.
- lowermost — lowest1 .
- lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
- make-work — work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.
- man power — the power supplied by human physical exertions: an ancient building constructed entirely by man power.
- 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.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- metalwork — objects made of metal.
- microbrew — beer brewed in a microbrewery.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- microwire — A very small diameter wire, especially one with a glass coating.
- minitower — a vertical case, smaller than a tower, designed to house a computer system standing on a desk or floor.
- misworded — to word incorrectly.
- miterwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Mitella, of the saxifrage family, having a capsule that resembles a bishop's miter.
- mitrewort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Mitella, of the saxifrage family, having a capsule that resembles a bishop's miter.
- moneywort — a creeping plant, Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, having roundish leaves and solitary yellow flowers.
- monotower — A monotower is an offshore platform without any workers, which has one leg.
- 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.
- net worth — net assets.
- networked — any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
- networker — any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
- 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 order — a new or revised system of operation, form of government, plan of attack, or the like.
- new world — Western Hemisphere (def 1).
- newcomers — Plural form of newcomer.
- newground — a tract of land recently cleared for cultivation.
- newsboard — bulletin board.