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9-letter words containing w, o, b

  • snowglobe — a transparent sphere filled with water and white particles which, when shaken, resemble snow falling
  • sound bow — that part of a bell against which the tongue strikes.
  • soup bowl — a container in which soup is served
  • sow-belly — fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.
  • spoon bow — an overhanging bow having a convex, curved stem.
  • subwoofer — a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies, generally below 125 Hz.
  • swell box — a chamber containing a set of pipes in a pipe organ or of reeds in a reed organ, and having movable slats or shutters that can be opened or closed to increase or diminish tonal volume.
  • swingboat — a piece of fairground equipment consisting of a boat-shaped carriage for swinging in
  • swordbill — a South American hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera, having a slender bill that is longer than its body.
  • throwback — an act of throwing back.
  • toowoomba — a city in SE Queensland, in E Australia.
  • tube worm — any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
  • unbeknown — unknown; unperceived; without one's knowledge (usually followed by to).
  • unbrowned — (of food) not browned
  • wagenboom — a South African tree
  • wakeboard — The board one stands on for wakeboarding.
  • walkabout — Chiefly British. a walking tour. an informal public stroll taken by members of the royal family or by a political figure for the purpose of greeting and being seen by the public.
  • wallboard — material manufactured in large sheets for use in making or covering walls, ceilings, etc., as a substitute for wooden boards or plaster.
  • wandorobo — Dorobo.
  • warbonnet — Alternative spelling of war bonnet.
  • wardrober — the employee of a royal household in charge of clothing
  • wardrobes — Plural form of wardrobe.
  • warmblood — A horse of a breed that is a cross between an Arab or similar breed and another breed of the draft or pony type.
  • washboard — a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
  • washbowls — Plural form of washbowl.
  • water boy — a person who carries a canteen or bucket of drinking water to those too occupied to fetch it, as to soldiers, laborers, or football players.
  • waterbody — Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
  • webisodes — Plural form of webisode.
  • webphones — Plural form of webphone.
  • well-born — born of a good, noble, or highly esteemed family.
  • welsh cob — any of a breed of medium-sized riding horse, developed in Wales, with a thickset body and relatively short legs
  • wen jiabo — 1942- ; premier of China (2002- )
  • westabout — in, to, or towards the west
  • westbound — proceeding or headed west.
  • westbrook — a city in SW Maine.
  • whaleboat — a long, narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas: formerly used in whaling, now mainly for sea rescue.
  • whalebone — an elastic, horny substance growing in place of teeth in the upper jaw of certain whales, and forming a series of thin, parallel plates on each side of the palate; baleen.
  • whirlbone — Alternative form of whirl-bone.
  • whiteboys — a secret agrarian peasant organization, active in Ireland during the early 1760s, whose members wore white shirts for recognition on their night raids to destroy crops, barns, and other property in redressing grievances against landlords and protesting the paying of tithes.
  • whitecomb — a fungal disease infecting the combs of certain fowls
  • wide body — a jet airliner having a fuselage wide enough to allow passenger seating to be divided by two aisles running from front to back.
  • wide-body — a jet airliner having a fuselage wide enough to allow passenger seating to be divided by two aisles running from front to back.
  • widowbird — Alternative spelling of widow bird.
  • wild boar — a wild Old World swine, Sus scrofa, from which most of the domestic hogs are believed to be derived.
  • wimbledon — a former borough, now part of Merton, in SE England, near London: international tennis tournaments.
  • windblown — blown by the wind: windblown hair.
  • windborne — Carried by the wind.
  • windbound — (of a sailing ship, sailboat, or the like) kept from sailing by a wind from the wrong direction or one of too high velocity.
  • windowbox — Alternative form of window box.
  • wing bolt — a bolt with a head like a wing nut.
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