9-letter words containing a, w
- jazzwoman — a female jazz musician.
- jazzwomen — Plural form of jazzwoman.
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- jigsawing — Present participle of jigsaw.
- jurywoman — a female juror.
- kahoolawe — an island in central Hawaii, S of Maui: uninhabited. 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km).
- kaikawaka — a small pyramid-shaped New Zealand conifer, Libocedrus bidwillii, with pinkish bark and red wood
- karankawa — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians who lived in southeastern Texas until the mid 19th century.
- kathiawar — a peninsula on the W coast of India.
- kawaguchi — a city on SE Honshu, in central Japan, N of Tokyo.
- keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kilowatts — Plural form of kilowatt.
- kinswoman — a female relative.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- kittiwake — either of two small, pearl-gray gulls of the genus Rissa, the black-legged R. tridactyla of the North Atlantic and the red-legged and red-billed R. brevirostris, of the Bering Sea, both nesting on narrow cliff ledges and having a rudimentary hind toe.
- kittyhawk — a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
- krakowiak — a lively Polish folk dance in duple meter with syncopated accents.
- kwajalein — an atoll in the Marshall Islands, in E Micronesia. About 78 miles (126 km) long.
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
- kwangtung — Older Spelling. Guangdong.
- lacewings — Plural form of lacewing.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- lamb down — to persuade (someone) to spend all his money
- lambswool — Fine wool from a young sheep, used to make knitted garments, blankets, etc., with a soft texture.
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- land wind — land breeze.
- land with — to give to, so as to put in difficulties; cause to be burdened with
- land-wind — a wind that comes from the land
- landowner — an owner or proprietor of land.
- landowska — Wanda [won-duh;; Polish vahn-dah] /ˈwɒn də;; Polish ˈvɑn dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1959, Polish harpsichordist, in the U.S. after 1940.
- landwards — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- langwidge — Eye dialect of language.
- lansdowne — Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice [pet-ee-fits-mawr-is,, -mor-] /ˈpɛt i fɪtsˈmɔr ɪs,, -ˈmɒr-/ (Show IPA), 5th Marquis of, 1845–1927, British statesman: viceroy of India 1888–94, foreign secretary 1900–05.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
- late wood — summerwood.
- late-wake — a lyke-wake
- lava flow — liquid or solidified lava which has erupted from a volcano onto the Earth's surface
- law agent — (in Scotland) a solicitor holding a certificate from the Law Society of Scotland and thereby entitled to appear for a client in any Sheriff Court
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- law court — court of law.
- law lords — (in Britain) members of the House of Lords who sit as the highest court of appeal, although in theory the full House of Lords has this role
- lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
- lawgiving — Enacting laws; legislative.