9-letter words containing w, i, s, c
- sosnowiec — a city in S Poland.
- spicewood — spicebush (def 1).
- stickweed — the ragweed.
- stickwork — a player's degree of competence or proficiency as a baseball batter, hockey or lacrosse player, etc.: Frequent practice improved his stickwork.
- sweelinck — Jan Pieters [yahn pee-tuh rs] /yɑn ˈpi tərs/ (Show IPA), or Jan Pieterszoon [yahn pee-tuh r-sohn] /yɑn ˈpi tərˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA), 1562–1621, Dutch organist and composer.
- swingback — (especially in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.
- switch on — the act or process of switching on an ignition, light, appliance, etc.
- switch-on — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switching — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- wackiness — odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
- wainscots — Plural form of wainscot.
- waistcoat — Chiefly British. vest (def 1).
- watchlist — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
- whimsical — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
- whipstock — the handle of a whip.
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.
- wholistic — holism.
- wickedest — evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- wide scsi — (hardware, standard) A variant on the SCSI-2 interface. It uses a 16-bit bus - double the width of the original SCSI-1 - and therefore cannot be connected to a SCSI-1 bus. It supports transfer rates up to 20 MB/s, like Fast SCSI. There is also a SCSI-2 definition of Wide-SCSI with a 32 bit data bus. This allows up to 40 megabytes per second but is very rarely used because it requires a large number of wires (118 wires on two connectors). Thus Wide SCSI usually means 16 bit-wide SCSI.
- wieschaus — Eric, born 1947, U.S.-born biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- wildcards — Plural form of wildcard.
- windchest — a chamber containing the air supply for the reeds or pipes of an organ.
- windscale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- windsocks — Plural form of windsock.
- wine cask — a strong wooden barrel used to hold wine
- wing case — elytron.
- wing-case — elytron.
- wingbacks — Plural form of wingback.
- wisconsin — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,154 sq. mi. (145,440 sq. km). Capital: Madison. Abbreviation: WI (for use with zip code), Wis., Wisc.
- wiseacres — Plural form of wiseacre.
- wisecrack — a smart or facetious remark.
- witticise — (ambitransitive) To express oneself wittily; to indulge in witticisms.
- witticism — a witty remark or sentence.
- woodchips — Plural form of woodchip.
- wreckfish — a large brown fish, Polyprion americanus, of the sea bass family, inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea and tropical Atlantic Ocean, often occurring in groups near wrecks.
- wristlock — a hold in which an opponent's wrist is grasped and twisted.
- yahwistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Yahwist.
- zwiebacks — Plural form of zwieback.