9-letter words containing tw
- 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.
- lintwhite — the linnet, Carduelis cannabina.
- luftwaffe — air force.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- meltwater — water from melted snow or ice.
- networked — any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
- networker — any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like: a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city.
- nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
- nightwear — night clothes.
- nitwitted — Being like a nitwit; being stupid or foolish.
- outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
- outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- outwitted — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
- outwitter — One who outwits another.
- outworked — Simple past tense and past participle of outwork.
- paintwork — layer of paint on wall or vehicle
- pilotweed — the compass plant, Silphium laciniatum.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- postwoman — female postal worker
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- rightward — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- saltwater — of or relating to salt water.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- 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
- 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.
- sixty-two — a cardinal number, 60 plus 2.
- slantways — aslant; obliquely.
- slantwise — aslant; obliquely.
- smartweed — any of several weeds of the genus Polygonum, having a smarting, acrid juice.
- sweatweed — marsh mallow.
- sweetwood — any of numerous tropical tree and shrub species of the family Lauraceae
- sweetwort — an infusion of unfermented malt.
- sweptwing — (of an aircraft, winged missile, etc.) having sweptback wings.
- the twins — the constellation Gemini, the third sign of the zodiac
- the twist — a modern dance popular in the 1960s, in which couples vigorously twist the hips in time to rhythmic music
- tightwire — tightrope (def 1).
- tutworker — a person involved in tutwork
- twalpenny — a Scots shilling
- twayblade — any of various orchids, especially of the genera Listera and Liparis, characterized by two nearly opposite broad leaves.
- tweeddale — Peebles.
- tweenager — a child of approximately eight to fourteen years of age
- tweet-out — a greeting to one’s friends on the Twitter website; a shout-out
- tweetable — short enough to be posted on the Twitter website
- twelfthly — in the twelfth position
- twentieth — next after the nineteenth; being the ordinal number for 20.