9-letter words containing a, w
- turn away — move further from sth, sb
- twalpenny — a Scots shilling
- twayblade — any of various orchids, especially of the genera Listera and Liparis, characterized by two nearly opposite broad leaves.
- tweeddale — Peebles.
- tweenager — a child of approximately eight to fourteen years of age
- tweetable — short enough to be posted on the Twitter website
- two-a-cat — two old cat.
- two-faced — having two faces.
- two-party — (of a political system) dominated by two major political parties
- two-phase — diphase.
- two-track — an oblique movement of a horse in which the forehand and hindquarters move on two distinct parallel tracks and the body is maintained uniformly in the direction of the movement.
- ullswater — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 12 km (7.5 miles)
- ultraslow — extremely slow
- ultrawide — extremely wide
- unallowed — Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers, permitted by the selection rules: allowed transition.
- unawarded — not awarded; not yet awarded to someone
- unawarely — not aware or conscious; unconscious: to be unaware of any change.
- unawesome — not awesome
- undawning — not yet dawned
- under way — If an activity is under way, it has already started. If an activity gets under way, it starts.
- underdraw — to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.
- underwear — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- unswaying — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
- unwakened — not roused from sleep; not wakened or woken up
- unwarlike — not relating to war
- unwasting — not wasting; not diminishing or decaying
- unwatched — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- unwavered — to flicker or quiver, as light: A distant beam wavered and then disappeared.
- unwealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- unwearied — not wearied; not fatigued.
- unwearing — gradually impairing or wasting: Reading small print can be wearing on the eyes.
- unweaving — to undo, take apart, or separate (something woven); unravel.
- unwomanly — not possessing qualities, such as warmth, attractiveness, etc, generally regarded as typical of a woman, esp a mature woman
- unwrapped — to remove or open the wrapping of.
- unwreaked — not avenged or gratified
- unwreathe — to bring out of a wreathed condition; untwist; untwine.
- upper jaw — the maxilla or upper part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. In higher vertebrates the upper jaw is fused to the cranium and the lower jaw (mandible)
- vaporware — Computer Slang. a product, especially software, that is promoted or marketed while it is still in development and that may never be produced.
- view mark — a mark stamped on antique armor or metalwork to indicate inspection and approval by the guild or by officials at the place of manufacture.
- viewrinal — a urinal with a small screen at eye level which displays advertisements
- wackiness — odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
- waddenzee — a shallow inlet of the North Sea between the N coast of the Netherlands and the West Frisian Islands: outer section of the former Zuider Zee. About 3861 sq. mi. (10,000 sq. km).
- wadsetter — a person who takes out a mortgage
- wadsworth — a city in N Ohio.
- waferlike — Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
- waffen ss — the militarized formations of the SS, established by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 and including some units of foreign nationals from occupied territories.
- wagenboom — a South African tree
- waggeries — Plural form of waggery.
- waggishly — In a waggish manner.
- waghalter — a person likely to be hanged