9-letter words containing d, e, w, l
- the wolds — a range of chalk hills in NE England: consists of the Yorkshire Wolds to the north, separated from the Lincolnshire Wolds by the Humber estuary
- the-weald — The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
- towelhead — an offensive term for someone who wears a turban
- twayblade — any of various orchids, especially of the genera Listera and Liparis, characterized by two nearly opposite broad leaves.
- tweeddale — Peebles.
- twolegged — having two legs.
- ultrawide — extremely wide
- unallowed — Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers, permitted by the selection rules: allowed transition.
- underflow — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- underwool — underfur.
- untwilled — (of fabric) not twilled
- unwieldly — not wieldy; wielded with difficulty; not readily handled or managed in use or action, as from size, shape, or weight; awkward; ungainly.
- wakefield — a city in West Yorkshire, in N England: battle 1460.
- waldenses — a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.
- waldflute — an organ flute stop
- waldgrave — (in the Holy Roman Empire) an officer having jurisdiction over a royal forest.
- wall-eyed — having eyes in which there is an abnormal amount of the white showing, because of divergent strabismus.
- wallopped — Simple past tense and past participle of wallop.
- wassailed — Simple past tense and past participle of wassail.
- wasteland — land that is uncultivated or barren.
- weariedly — In an wearied manner; wearily.
- wedgelike — Shaped like a wedge.
- weevilled — infested with weevils.
- well done — congratulations
- well told — simple past tense and past participle of tell1 .
- well-aged — having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man; an aged tree.
- well-bred — well brought up; properly trained and educated: a well-bred boy.
- well-done — performed accurately and diligently; executed with skill and efficiency.
- well-made — skillfully built or constructed: a well-made sofa.
- well-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- well-read — having read extensively (sometimes followed by in): well-read in oceanography.
- well-shod — a simple past tense and past participle of shoe.
- well-trod — a simple past tense and past participle of tread.
- well-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- welladays — alas
- welldoing — good conduct or action.
- wellheads — Plural form of wellhead.
- wellywood — the film production business located in Wellington, New Zealand
- wergeland — Henrik Arnold. 1808–45, Norwegian poet and nationalist, remembered for his lyric and narrative verse
- westfield — a city in S Massachusetts.
- wheatland — a region where wheat is grown
- wheedling — to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts: We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent.
- wholefood — food with little or no refining or processing and containing no artificial additives or preservatives; natural or organic food.
- wieldable — Capable of being wielded.
- wieldless — not capable of being handled; unwieldy
- wild bean — groundnut (def 1).
- wild date — a feather palm, Phoenix sylvestris, of India, having drooping, bluish-green or grayish leaves and small, orange-yellow fruit.
- wild pear — a wild variety of pear, especially Pyrus pyraster or Pyrus caucasica
- wild rice — a tall aquatic grass, Zizania aquatica, of northeastern North America.
- wild rose — any native species of rose, usually having a single flower with the corolla consisting of one circle of five roundish, spreading petals.