9-letter words containing w, r, s, t
- interwebs — Plural form of interweb.
- jackstraw — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jobsworth — (chiefly, British) A minor worker who refuses to be flexible in the application of rules to help a client or customer.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- 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 .
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- milkworts — Plural form of milkwort.
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- miter saw — a backsaw used for cutting miters.
- motorways — Plural form of motorway.
- narrowest — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- new start — an employee who has just joined a company or organization
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- newstrade — newspaper retail as a whole
- northwest — a point on the compass midway between north and west. Abbreviation: NW.
- otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
- outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
- outthrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outthrow.
- overstrew — to strew or scatter over.
- oversweet — having the taste or flavor characteristic of sugar, honey, etc.
- overwrest — to strain too much
- power set — the collection of all subsets of a given set.
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rosewater — perfume, flavouring from rose petals
- rust away — When a metal object rusts away, it is gradually weakened and destroyed by rust.
- saltwater — of or relating to salt water.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- sawtimber — trees suitable for sawing into planks, boards, etc.
- screw nut — a nut threaded to receive a screw.
- screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- sea water — Sea water is salt water from the sea.
- 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.
- shrewdest — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- slew rate — the rate at which an electronic amplifier can respond to an abrupt change of input level