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9-letter words containing wo

  • shorewood — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
  • sixty-two — a cardinal number, 60 plus 2.
  • snakewood — the heavy, dark-red wood of a South American tree, Piratinera guianensis, used for decorative veneers, musical instrument bows, etc.
  • spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
  • spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
  • spicewood — spicebush (def 1).
  • spoonworm — any of various unsegmented, burrowing marine worms of the phylum Echiura, of shallow waters worldwide, having a sausage-shaped body and a flattened head.
  • stairwork — unseen plotting
  • stalworth — stalwart.
  • steelwork — steel parts or articles.
  • stickwork — a player's degree of competence or proficiency as a baseball batter, hockey or lacrosse player, etc.: Frequent practice improved his stickwork.
  • stinkwood — any of several trees yielding fetid wood.
  • stockwood — (Arthur) Mervyn. 1913–95, British Anglican prelate; bishop of Southwark (1959–80)
  • stockwork — a method of working in a mine where the ore is found in clusters rather than in veins
  • stonework — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
  • stonewort — any of a plantlike group of green algae constituting the class Charophyceae, having a jointed body frequently encrusted with lime and usually attached to the bottom in fresh water.
  • stop-work — a temporary cessation of work as a form of protest
  • strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
  • strapwort — a seaside plant with leaves resembling straps
  • strawworm — caddisworm.
  • stumpwork — a type of embroidery popular in the 17th century, consisting of intricate, colorful designs padded with horsehair to make them stand out in relief.
  • subwoofer — a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies, generally below 125 Hz.
  • swashwork — a type of work done on a lathe, which is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation of the work
  • swearword — a word used in swearing or cursing; a profane or obscene word.
  • sweetwood — any of numerous tropical tree and shrub species of the family Lauraceae
  • sweetwort — an infusion of unfermented malt.
  • sword arm — the arm in which your sword is normally held
  • swordbill — a South American hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera, having a slender bill that is longer than its body.
  • swordfish — a large, marine food fish, Xiphias gladius, having the upper jaw elongated into a swordlike structure.
  • swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
  • swordsman — a person who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
  • swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
  • taekwondo — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
  • task-work — work assigned or imposed as a task.
  • the sword — violence, warfare
  • the wolds — a range of chalk hills in NE England: consists of the Yorkshire Wolds to the north, separated from the Lincolnshire Wolds by the Humber estuary
  • the woman — feminine nature or feelings
  • the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • the worst — the least good or most inferior person, thing, or part in a group, narrative, etc
  • throwover — designed to fit loosely over an object without being tied to it
  • tigerwood — a heavily striped wood used in cabinetmaking
  • time-worn — worn or impaired by time.
  • tirewoman — a lady's maid.
  • tollywood — the Telugu-language film industry, based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in SE India
  • toothwort — a European plant, Lathraea squamaria, of the broomrape family, having a rootstock covered with toothlike scales.
  • toowoomba — a city in SE Queensland, in E Australia.
  • torchwood — any of various resinous woods suitable for making torches, as the wood of the tree Amyris balsamifera, of the rue family, native to Florida and the West Indies.
  • touchwood — wood converted into an easily ignitible substance by the action of certain fungi, and used as tinder; punk.
  • trunkwork — a clandestine action, esp by means of a trunk
  • tube worm — any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
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