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9-letter words containing n, w, o, r

  • forewoman — a woman in charge of a particular department or group of workers.
  • forewomen — Plural form of forewoman.
  • forwander — to wander far
  • freewoman — a woman who is free or at liberty, esp one who is not a slave or serf
  • frogspawn — The eggs of a frog, which are surrounded by transparent jelly.
  • front row — the forwards at the front of a scrum
  • frontward — in a direction toward the front.
  • frontwise — Toward the front; in the direction of the front; frontward.
  • furrowing — Present participle of furrow.
  • garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
  • gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
  • get wrong — be mistaken about sth
  • glendower — Owen, 1359?–1416? Welsh rebel against Henry IV of England.
  • glowering — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
  • greenwood — a city in W South Carolina.
  • grewhound — a greyhound
  • grow into — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
  • growingly — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
  • gruntwork — Alternative spelling of grunt work.
  • gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • handiwork — work done by hand.
  • handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
  • handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
  • harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
  • hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
  • hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
  • hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
  • heronshaw — a heron
  • homegrown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
  • homeowner — a person who owns a home.
  • honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
  • honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
  • hornworms — Plural form of hornworm.
  • hornworts — Plural form of hornwort.
  • hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
  • hornywink — a lapwing
  • howlround — the condition, resulting in a howling noise, when sound from a loudspeaker is fed back into the microphone of a public-address or recording system
  • in a word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • in escrow — a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
  • in flower — When a plant is in flower or when it has come into flower, its flowers have appeared and opened.
  • inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
  • ingrowing — growing into the flesh: an ingrowing nail.
  • ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.
  • interflow — to flow into each other; intermingle.
  • intergrow — to grow among each other
  • intertown — Between towns.
  • interwork — to work or weave together; interweave.
  • interwove — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
  • inworking — an internal operation
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