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9-letter words containing d, o, w, a

  • earwormed — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
  • eyeshadow — A colored cosmetic, typically in powder form, applied to the eyelids or to the skin around the eyes to accentuate them.
  • face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
  • fake-down — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
  • fall down — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • flag down — a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at one edge to a staff or cord, and used as the symbol of a nation, state, or organization, as a means of signaling, etc.; ensign; standard; banner; pennant.
  • flatwoods — a woodland in a low-lying region having little drainage.
  • floodwall — A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood.
  • food wrap — a thin polythene material that clings closely to any surface around which it is placed, used for wrapping food
  • forwander — to wander far
  • forwarded — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • forwarder — a person who forwards.
  • forwardly — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • frontward — in a direction toward the front.
  • frowardly — In a froward manner.
  • gawkihood — the state of being gawky
  • gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
  • goalwards — toward or in the direction of the opposing team's goal
  • god-awful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
  • goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
  • hand down — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • handblown — (of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld blowpipe: handblown crystal.
  • handiwork — work done by hand.
  • handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
  • handwoven — made on a handloom; handloomed.
  • handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
  • handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
  • hardwoods — Plural form of hardwood.
  • hazelwood — a town in E Missouri.
  • headwords — Plural form of headword.
  • heartwood — the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
  • hold sway — have influence
  • homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
  • in a word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • lamb down — to persuade (someone) to spend all his money
  • lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
  • leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
  • load down — If you load someone down with things, especially heavy things, you give them a large number of them or put a large number of them on them.
  • loan word — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
  • loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
  • low board — a diving board 1 meter (3.2 feet) above the water.
  • low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
  • lowballed — Simple past tense and past participle of lowball.
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