9-letter words containing w, t, g
- lightwell — (architecture) An open shaft that transmits light from above into a staircase or an inner room.
- lightwood — Also called fatwood. kindling.
- lime twig — a twig smeared with birdlime to catch birds.
- longworth — Alice Lee Roosevelt ("Princess Alice") 1884–1980, U.S. socialite: daughter of Theodore Roosevelt.
- lowlights — Plural form of lowlight.
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- megawatts — Plural form of megawatt.
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- new right — a group of conservatives whose views diverge from those of traditional conservatives, as in being more staunchly opposed to abortion or defense cuts.
- newington — a town in S Connecticut.
- newsagent — newsdealer.
- night owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- night-owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nightglow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.
- nightgown — a loose gown, worn in bed by women or children.
- nighthawk — any of several longwinged, American goatsuckers of the genus Chordeiles, related to the whippoorwill, especially C. minor, having variegated black, white, and buff plumage.
- nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
- nightwear — night clothes.
- no-growth — failing to or unlikely to grow; showing a lack of progress or development: a no-growth industry.
- nongrowth — the failure to grow
- outgrowth — a natural development, product, or result: to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
- outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
- outswings — Plural form of outswing.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- pregrowth — the period before something begins to grow
- rewetting — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
- right now — at this precise moment
- right-way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- rightward — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- shortgown — a short-skirted dress worn by women doing housework
- slow gait — (of a horse) a slow rack.
- sweet gum — a tall, aromatic tree, Liquidambar styraciflua, of the eastern U.S., having star-shaped leaves and fruits in rounded, burlike clusters.
- sweptwing — (of an aircraft, winged missile, etc.) having sweptback wings.
- swingbeat — a type of modern dance music that combines soul, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop
- swingboat — a piece of fairground equipment consisting of a boat-shaped carriage for swinging in
- swingtail — denoting an aircraft with a rear portion that can be opened to assist in loading cargo
- swingtree — a whiffletree.
- switching — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- take wing — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
- tea wagon — a small table on wheels for carrying articles for use in serving tea.
- the gower — a peninsula in S Wales, in Swansea county on the Bristol Channel: mainly agricultural with several resorts
- the wagon — Charles's Wain
- throw rug — scatter rug.
- thwarting — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
- tigerwood — a heavily striped wood used in cabinetmaking
- tightwire — tightrope (def 1).
- towelling — a narrow fabric of cotton or linen, in plain, twill, or huck weave, used for hand towels or dishtowels.
- tuptowing — the intensive study of Greek grammar
- tweenager — a child of approximately eight to fourteen years of age