9-letter words containing d, l, s, w
- old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
- old welsh — the Welsh language of the period before c1150 a.d.
- oldsquaws — Plural form of oldsquaw.
- 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
- seldshown — seldom shown
- 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.
- sidewheel — either of a pair of paddle wheels on the sides of a vessel.
- sillyweed — marijuana.
- slag down — to give a verbal lashing to
- slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- slideshow — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
- slim down — slender, as in girth or form; slight in build or structure.
- slinkweed — a plant believed to make a cow give birth prematurely
- slow down — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- slow food — food that has been prepared with care, using high-quality local and seasonal ingredients
- snow mold — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dense, cottony growth that covers the affected parts as the snow melts in the spring, caused by any of several fungi of the genera Calonectria, Fusarium, Pythium, and Typhula.
- snow-clad — covered with snow.
- snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
- snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
- snowmould — a fungal disease of soil or grass resulting from snow cover
- snowslide — an avalanche consisting largely or entirely of snow.
- 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.
- speedwell — any of several plants, shrubs, or small trees of the genus Veronica, of the figwort family, having opposite leaves and small flowers.
- spelldown — a spelling competition that begins with all the contestants standing and that ends when all but one, the winner, have been required to sit down due to a specified number of misspellings.
- spot-weld — to weld (two pieces of metal) together in a small area or spot by the application of heat and pressure.
- 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.
- sweetveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by high-quality grass
- swellhead — a vain or arrogant person.
- swordbill — a South American hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera, having a slender bill that is longer than its body.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- wash load — a load of washing which is put in a washing machine
- wassailed — Simple past tense and past participle of wassail.
- wasteland — land that is uncultivated or barren.
- well-shod — a simple past tense and past participle of shoe.
- well-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- welladays — alas
- wellheads — Plural form of wellhead.
- westfield — a city in S Massachusetts.