9-letter words containing wo
- no wonder — it is not surprising
- nonworker — One who does not work.
- oarswoman — A female rower, especially as a member of a racing team.
- oarswomen — Plural form of oarswoman.
- old woman — elderly lady
- old world — Old world is used to describe places and things that are or seem to be from an earlier period of history, and that look interesting or attractive.
- old-world — of or relating to the ancient world or to a former period of history.
- olivewood — the wood of the olive tree
- one-woman — used, operated, performed, etc., by one woman: a one-woman show.
- outworked — Simple past tense and past participle of outwork.
- overwound — to wind beyond the proper limit; wind too far: He must have overwound his watch.
- paintwork — layer of paint on wall or vehicle
- paperwork — written or clerical work, as records or reports, forming a necessary but often a routine and secondary part of some work or job.
- part work — magazine series
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
- pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
- piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- pokerwork — the art of decorating wood or leather by burning a design with a heated metal point; pyrography
- postwoman — female postal worker
- presswork — the working or management of a printing press.
- prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
- quadwords — Plural form of quadword.
- quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
- quillwort — any fernlike, aquatic marsh plant of the genus Isoëtes, characterized by clustered, quill-like leaves bearing sporangia in their bases.
- railwoman — a female worker on a railway
- rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
- reworking — revised version
- ridgewood — a city in NE New Jersey.
- roadworks — work, as construction or repairs, done on a road.
- rock wool — mineral wool.
- root word — basic word form without prefix or suffix
- roundwood — small pieces of timber (about 5–15 cm, or 2–6 in.) in diameter; small logs
- roundworm — any nematode, especially Ascaris lumbricoides, that infests the intestine of humans and other mammals.
- rude word — a word that is generally considered vulgar or obscene; swearword
- rush-work — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- sapanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
- sassywood — (in Liberia) a trial by ordeal, such as being forced to drink poison
- satinwood — the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used especially for making furniture.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- screwworm — the larva of any of certain flies of the genus Callitroga, which sometimes infests wounds and the nose and navel of domestic animals and humans.
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- semiworks — a manufacturing plant equipped to develop and manufacture a new product in small quantities prior to full-scale manufacture
- shellwork — decorative work composed of seashells: an elaborate picture frame decorated with shellwork.
- 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
- shop-worn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop