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9-letter words containing w, e, r, o

  • ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • paperwork — written or clerical work, as records or reports, forming a necessary but often a routine and secondary part of some work or job.
  • pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
  • pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
  • pet owner — a person who owns a pet
  • pewholder — a person who leases or is the owner of a pew or an area of seats in a church
  • piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
  • piepowder — a travelling market trader, merchant or similar traveller
  • plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
  • pokerwork — the art of decorating wood or leather by burning a design with a heated metal point; pyrography
  • polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
  • powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
  • powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
  • power cut — break in electricity supply
  • power hit — (Or "power glitch") A sudden increase (spike) or decrease (drop-out) in the mains electricity supply. These can cause crashes and even permanent damage to computers. Computers and other electronic equipment should really include some kind of over-voltage protection in its mains input to prevent such damamge.
  • 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.
  • power nap — a short sleep taken during the working day with the intention of improving the quality of work later in the day
  • power set — the collection of all subsets of a given set.
  • power-saw — to cut with a power saw.
  • powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerless — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
  • poweropen — The PowerOpen Association defines and promotes the PowerOpen Environment (POE).
  • powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
  • pre-owned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
  • pregrowth — the period before something begins to grow
  • presswork — the working or management of a printing press.
  • prowessed — brave or skilful
  • prowesses — exceptional valor, bravery, or ability, especially in combat or battle.
  • rainbowed — containing, resembling, or involving a rainbow
  • raw score — the original score, as of a test, before it is statistically adjusted.
  • raw-boned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
  • reflowing — an occurrence of flowing again
  • reforward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • reswallow — to swallow again
  • reworking — revised version
  • rice bowl — deep dish for rice
  • ride down — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • ridgewood — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • rock wren — an American wren, Salpinctes obsoletus, inhabiting the foothills, badlands, and mesa country of the western U.S. and Mexico.
  • rockwater — water that comes out of rock
  • rosé wine — alcoholic drink: pink wine
  • rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
  • rosewater — perfume, flavouring from rose petals
  • rosinweed — any coarse, North American, composite plant of the genus Silphium, having a resinous juice and stalkless, paired leaves.
  • rough-hew — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
  • roughhewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
  • row house — one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
  • row-house — one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
  • rowdiness — a rough, disorderly person.
  • rude word — a word that is generally considered vulgar or obscene; swearword
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