Some words nippers read out? (6)
I believe the answer is:
clause
'some words' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'nippers read out?' is the wordplay.
'nippers' becomes 'claws' ('claw' can be a synonym of 'nipper').
'read out?' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue (I've seen 'read out' mean this).
'claws' is a homophone of 'CLAUSE'.
(Other definitions for clause that I've seen before include "Joker, say" , "Bill's article" , "Separate section of a legal document" , "Part of sentence or document" , "Grammatical division" .)