9-letter words containing war
- greenware — (ceramics, usually, uncountable) Pottery that has been shaped but not yet fired, especially while it is drying prior to being fireable.
- groupware — software that allows users on a network to work together and communicate effectively: Our company uses groupware to share files, databases, calendars, and email.
- guiltware — /gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money. 2. Shareware that works.
- gurdwaras — Plural form of gurdwara.
- headwards — backwards beyond the original source
- hellwards — towards hell
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- houseware — Homeware.
- hyperware — (hypertext) Software that implements or uses hypertext.
- illawarra — a coastal district of E Australia, in S New South Wales. Pop: 404 626 (2002 est)
- kathiawar — a peninsula on the W coast of India.
- khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- landwards — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- leewardly — (of a ship) tending to fall to leeward
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- legwarmer — a footless, stockinglike knitted covering for the leg, usually worn over tights, trousers, boots, etc., for warmth, as in a dance class or while exercising, or as a fashion accessory.
- malware's — software intended to damage a computer, mobile device, computer system, or computer network, or to take partial control over its operation: tips on finding and removing viruses, spyware, and other malware.
- metalware — work of metal, especially utensils, flatware, etc.
- mold-warp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- moonwards — towards the moon
- nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
- northward — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
- paperware — printed matter or items made of paper
- pay award — a bonus or increase in pay or salary
- penis war — (jargon, abuse) (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- plateware — household dishes, especially ones made of or plated with gold or silver.
- prewarned — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- price war — intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
- red dwarf — any of the faint reddish stars having diameters about half that of the sun and low surface temperatures, about 2000–3000 K; a main sequence star of spectral type M.
- reforward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- rewardful — offering reward; rewarding
- rewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
- rightward — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- riverward — Also, riverwards. toward a river.
- scareware — Computers. software that is sold as computer security or as an antivirus or other utility program but is either useless or is itself malware: I was a victim of scareware—I got a warning that my computer was about to fail, so I panicked and purchased the advertised software, which wiped my hard drive instead of fixing it!
- seawardly — in a seaward direction
- selfwards — in the direction of oneself
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- shareware — software distributed without initial charge but for which the user is encouraged to pay a nominal fee to cover support for continued use.
- shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
- shoreward — Also, shorewards. toward the shore or land.
- sidewards — towards one side
- sioux war — any of a series of skirmishes or wars between the Sioux Indians and settlers or the U.S. Army from 1854 to 1890.