9-letter words containing d, i, w
- whiteweed — Oxeye daisy.
- whitewood — any of numerous trees, as the tulip tree or the linden, yielding a white or light-colored wood.
- whithered — Simple past tense and past participle of whither.
- whizz-kid — If you refer to a young person as a whizz-kid, you mean that they have achieved success at a young age because they are very clever and very good at something, especially making money.
- whodunits — Plural form of whodunit.
- whodunnit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- whydunnit — a novel, film, etc, concerned with the motives of the criminal rather than his or her identity
- wickedest — evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- wide body — a jet airliner having a fuselage wide enough to allow passenger seating to be divided by two aisles running from front to back.
- wide open — opened to the full extent: a wide-open window.
- wide scsi — (hardware, standard) A variant on the SCSI-2 interface. It uses a 16-bit bus - double the width of the original SCSI-1 - and therefore cannot be connected to a SCSI-1 bus. It supports transfer rates up to 20 MB/s, like Fast SCSI. There is also a SCSI-2 definition of Wide-SCSI with a 32 bit data bus. This allows up to 40 megabytes per second but is very rarely used because it requires a large number of wires (118 wires on two connectors). Thus Wide SCSI usually means 16 bit-wide SCSI.
- wide-body — a jet airliner having a fuselage wide enough to allow passenger seating to be divided by two aisles running from front to back.
- wide-eyed — with the eyes open wide, as in amazement, innocence, or sleeplessness.
- wide-open — opened to the full extent: a wide-open window.
- wideawake — (historical) A type of hat, with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
- widowbird — Alternative spelling of widow bird.
- widowered — a man who has lost his spouse by death and has not remarried.
- widowhood — the state or a period of being a widow or, sometimes, a widower.
- widthways — Widthwise The direction of the width of an object or place.
- widthwise — in the direction of the width.
- wieldable — Capable of being wielded.
- wieldless — not capable of being handled; unwieldy
- wiesbaden — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- wigwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of wigwag.
- wild bean — groundnut (def 1).
- wild boar — a wild Old World swine, Sus scrofa, from which most of the domestic hogs are believed to be derived.
- wild card — card game: substitute card
- wild date — a feather palm, Phoenix sylvestris, of India, having drooping, bluish-green or grayish leaves and small, orange-yellow fruit.
- wild hunt — (in northern European legend) a phantom hunt, conducted either in the sky or in forests.
- wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wild pear — a wild variety of pear, especially Pyrus pyraster or Pyrus caucasica
- wild pink — any of several catchflies
- 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.
- wild silk — tussah.
- wild type — an organism having an appearance that is characteristic of the species in a natural breeding population.
- wild west — the western frontier region of the U.S., before the establishment of stable government.
- wild-card — of, constituting, or including a wild card.
- wild-eyed — having an angry, insane, or distressed expression in the eyes.
- wildcards — Plural form of wildcard.
- wildcraft — The harvesting of wild plants to sell or make into saleable products.
- wildering — (botany) A plant growing in a state of nature, especially one that has run wild or escaped from cultivation.
- wildfires — Plural form of wildfire.
- wildlands — land that has not been cultivated, especially land set aside and protected as a wilderness.
- wildlings — Plural form of wildling.
- wildwoods — Plural form of wildwood.
- wild_life — Logic, Inheritance, Functions and Equations parts: interpreter, manual, tests, libraries, examples Paradise Project, DEC Paris Research Laboratory. LIFE is an experimental programming language with a powerful facility for structured type inheritance. It reconciles styles from functional programming, logic programming, and object-oriented programming. LIFE implements a constraint logic programming language with equality (unification) and entailment (matching) constraints over order-sorted feature terms. The Wild_LIFE interpreter has a comfortable user interface with incremental query extension ability. It contains an extensive set of built-in operations as well as an X Windows interface. A semantic superset of LOGIN and LeFun. Syntax is similar to prolog. Mailing list: [email protected] E-mail: Peter Van Roy <[email protected]>
- willesden — a former borough, now part of Brent, in SE England, near London.
- wimbledon — a former borough, now part of Merton, in SE England, near London: international tennis tournaments.
- win round — persuade, coax