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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
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