9-letter words containing d, r, o, w
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- driftwood — wood floating on a body of water or cast ashore by it.
- drop away — become fewer
- drop-down — computer menu, list: displayed when selected
- dropworts — Plural form of dropwort.
- drown out — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drownings — Plural form of drowning.
- earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
- earwormed — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
- edgeworth — Maria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
- eiderdown — Small, soft feathers from the breast of the female eider duck.
- elderwort — Danewort.
- embowered — Simple past tense and past participle of embower.
- embrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of embrown.
- empowered — (US) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.
- endowered — Simple past tense and past participle of endower.
- fieldwork — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- flowerbed — A part of a garden or park where flowers are grown.
- food wrap — a thin polythene material that clings closely to any surface around which it is placed, used for wrapping food
- for words — indescribably; extremely
- forewords — Plural form of foreword.
- form word — function word.
- 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.
- freeworld — the nations of the world that function chiefly under democratic and capitalistic systems rather than under totalitarianism or Communism.
- frontward — in a direction toward the front.
- frostweed — a plant, Helianthemum canadense, of the rockrose family, native to eastern North America, having narrow leaves and a solitary yellow flower.
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- fruitwood — any of various woods from fruit-bearing trees, used for cabinetmaking and the like.
- full word — (especially in Chinese grammar) a word that has lexical meaning rather than grammatical meaning; a word or morpheme that functions grammatically as a contentive.
- 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.
- glendower — Owen, 1359?–1416? Welsh rebel against Henry IV of England.
- goalwards — toward or in the direction of the opposing team's goal
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- greenwood — a city in W South Carolina.
- grewhound — a greyhound
- guideword — A watchword; a word or phrase that serves as one's guide.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hardwoods — Plural form of hardwood.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- heartwood — the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- horseweed — a North American composite weed, Erigeron canadensis, having narrow, hairy leaves and clusters of very small greenish-white flowers.