9-letter words containing w, e, t, s
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- howitzers — Plural form of howitzer.
- in a stew — agitated, flustered
- interwebs — Plural form of interweb.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- 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.
- knotweeds — Plural form of knotweed.
- know best — to be the best guide, authority, etc.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
- leastwise — at least; at any rate.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- 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.
- lower set — (mathematics) A finite non-empty downward closed subset of a partial order.
- lowermost — lowest1 .
- lowestoft — a seaport in NE Suffolk, in E England: famous for a type of china.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- megawatts — Plural form of megawatt.
- meltdowns — Plural form of meltdown.
- mess with — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- mews flat — a flat or apartment situated in a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings
- misbestow — to bestow wrongly
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- narrowest — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- 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 start — an employee who has just joined a company or organization
- new style — time reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar. Compare old style (def 2).
- new test. — New Testament
- newcastle — 1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
- news item — story featured in the news
- news-beat — beat (def 40b).
- newsagent — newsdealer.
- newscasts — Plural form of newscast.
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- newsstand — a stall or other place at which newspapers and often periodicals are sold, as on a street corner or in a building lobby.
- newstrade — newspaper retail as a whole
- nonwhites — Plural form of nonwhite.
- northwest — a point on the compass midway between north and west. Abbreviation: NW.
- old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
- otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
- outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
- outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- overstrew — to strew or scatter over.