9-letter words containing w, n, p
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- pinwrench — wrench with a projection to fit a hole
- pipe down — a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
- plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
- plainview — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- plan view — plan (def 4).
- play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plop down — If you plop down or plop yourself down somewhere, you sit down quickly but gently.
- plow into — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plow wind — a wind squall with a narrow, straight path of advance.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
- portadown — a town in S Northern Ireland, in the district of Armagh. Pop: 25 958 (2001)
- post town — a town having a main Post Office branch
- postwoman — female postal worker
- pottstown — a borough in SE Pennsylvania.
- powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
- powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
- power nap — a short sleep taken during the working day with the intention of improving the quality of work later in the day
- poweropen — The PowerOpen Association defines and promotes the PowerOpen Environment (POE).
- pre-owned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
- prewarned — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- prewiring — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- pull down — designed to be pulled down for use: a pull-down bed; a desk with a pull-down front.
- pull-down — designed to be pulled down for use: a pull-down bed; a desk with a pull-down front.
- punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- ramp down — decrease effort, work
- sand wasp — any of certain sphecid wasps of the subfamily Bembicinae that nest in the ground and are common along the seashore.
- sapanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- shop-worn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
- show pony — a person who tries to be the centre of attention; show-off
- slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- snow-plow — an implement or machine for clearing away snow from highways, railroad tracks, etc.
- snowcreep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- spelldown — a spelling competition that begins with all the contestants standing and that ends when all but one, the winner, have been required to sit down due to a specified number of misspellings.
- spewiness — the condition of being boggy or poorly drained
- spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
- split-new — brand-new
- spoon bow — an overhanging bow having a convex, curved stem.
- spoonways — like spoons, esp by fitting together in the way that spoons do
- spoonworm — any of various unsegmented, burrowing marine worms of the phylum Echiura, of shallow waters worldwide, having a sausage-shaped body and a flattened head.
- spot news — the latest news, reported immediately.