9-letter words containing a, w, h
- mollyhawk — the juvenile of the southern black-backed gull, Larus dominicanus
- mouthwash — a solution, often containing antiseptic, astringent, and breath-sweetening agents, used for cleansing the mouth and teeth, and for gargling.
- narrowish — somewhat narrow
- new haven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- new maths — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- newchwang — Niuzhuang.
- newsflash — flash (def 6).
- 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.
- northward — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- ohm's law — the law that for any circuit the electric current is directly proportional to the voltage and is inversely proportional to the resistance.
- outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- part with — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- pawn shop — shop that makes loans on personal property
- peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- play with — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- prop wash — propeller wash.
- 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.
- road show — touring performance or display
- road-show — of or relating to road shows.
- screwhead — the head or top of a screw having a slot for the end of a screwdriver.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- sei whale — a rorqual, Balaenoptera borealis, inhabiting all seas: now greatly reduced in number.
- shadowbox — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- shadowily — in a shadowy way or manner
- shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shakedown — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- shallower — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shallowly — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shapewear — undergarments designed to mold or hold a body to a certain shape, as girdles.
- shareware — software distributed without initial charge but for which the user is encouraged to pay a nominal fee to cover support for continued use.
- shawlless — lacking, or not wearing, a shawl
- sheepwalk — a tract of land on which sheep are pastured.
- shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
- shewbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- shoalwise — in shoals or large groups
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
- shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
- shoreward — Also, shorewards. toward the shore or land.
- 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.