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9-letter words containing a, w, d, l

  • leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
  • leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
  • leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
  • leewardly — (of a ship) tending to fall to leeward
  • leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
  • load down — If you load someone down with things, especially heavy things, you give them a large number of them or put a large number of them on them.
  • loan word — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
  • loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
  • low board — a diving board 1 meter (3.2 feet) above the water.
  • low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
  • lowballed — Simple past tense and past participle of lowball.
  • lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
  • lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
  • macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
  • maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
  • mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.
  • mold-warp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • nail down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • nail-down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • nanoworld — The sphere of influence of nanotechnology.
  • nidwalden — a demicanton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 106 sq. mi. (275 sq. km). Capital: Stans.
  • old squaw — a sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, of arctic and subarctic regions.
  • old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
  • old woman — elderly lady
  • oldsquaws — Plural form of oldsquaw.
  • outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
  • play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • rewardful — offering reward; rewarding
  • rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
  • saddlebow — the arched front part of a saddle or saddletree.
  • scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
  • seawardly — in a seaward direction
  • selfwards — in the direction of oneself
  • shadowily — in a shadowy way or manner
  • sidewalks — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
  • slag down — to give a verbal lashing to
  • slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • snow-clad — covered with snow.
  • snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
  • sod's law — (humour)   Murphy's Law.
  • sound law — phonetic law.
  • speedwalk — an endless conveyor belt, moving walk, or the like used to transport standing persons from place to place.
  • swaledale — a breed of small hardy sheep kept esp in northern England for its coarse wool which is used for making tweeds and carpets
  • swampland — land or an area covered with swamps.
  • swaziland — a kingdom in SE Africa between S Mozambique and the E Republic of South Africa: formerly a British protectorate. 6704 sq. mi. (17,363 sq. km). Capital: Mbabane.
  • swellhead — a vain or arrogant person.
  • swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
  • 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.
  • tack-weld — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • tail wind — a wind blowing in the same direction as the course of a ship or aircraft
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