9-letter words containing w, o, r, t, h
- outgrowth — a natural development, product, or result: to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
- outthrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outthrow.
- over with — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
- overthrow — to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- 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.
- pregrowth — the period before something begins to grow
- right now — at this precise moment
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
- shortgown — a short-skirted dress worn by women doing housework
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- stalworth — stalwart.
- swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
- the crowd — the common people; the masses
- the gower — a peninsula in S Wales, in Swansea county on the Bristol Channel: mainly agricultural with several resorts
- the sword — violence, warfare
- the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- the worst — the least good or most inferior person, thing, or part in a group, narrative, etc
- throw off — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- throw out — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- throw rug — scatter rug.
- throwaway — made or intended to be discarded after use or quick examination: a throwaway container; a throwaway brochure.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- throwdown — challenge to a physical or artistic competition
- throwover — designed to fit loosely over an object without being tied to it
- throwster — a person who throws silk or synthetic filaments.
- toothwort — a European plant, Lathraea squamaria, of the broomrape family, having a rootstock covered with toothlike scales.
- torchwood — any of various resinous woods suitable for making torches, as the wood of the tree Amyris balsamifera, of the rue family, native to Florida and the West Indies.
- two-horse — If you describe a contest as a two-horse race, you mean that only two of the people or things taking part have any chance of winning.
- unwrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- upwrought — wrought up; agitated
- wadsworth — a city in N Ohio.
- warmouths — Plural form of warmouth.
- watch for — be vigilant for, careful of
- watchword — a word or short phrase to be communicated, on challenge, to a sentinel or guard; password or countersign.
- water hog — a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
- waterhole — A depression in which water collects, especially one from which animals regularly drink.
- watt-hour — a unit of energy equal to the energy of one watt operating for one hour, equivalent to 3600 joules. Abbreviation: Wh.
- wentworth — Thomas, 1st Earl of Strafford, Strafford, 1st Earl of.
- wheatworm — a small nematode, Tylenchus tritici, that stunts growth and disrupts seed production in wheat.
- whereinto — Into which.
- whereunto — (archaic or formal, interrogative) unto what; to what purpose.
- white rot — a decay of wood caused by lignase-producing fungi, especially Phanerochaete chrysosporium.
- whitworth — Kathrynne Ann ("Kathy") born 1939, U.S. golfer.