9-letter words containing e, w, a
- awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
- baby wipe — a disposable moistened medicated paper towel, usually supplied in a plastic drum or packet, used for cleaning babies
- backswept — slanting backwards
- backwater — A backwater is a place that is isolated.
- bangweulu — shallow lake in N Zambia: including swamps, 3,800 sq mi (9,842 sq km)
- bathwater — water in which a person bathes
- batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- be warned — If someone says to you 'be warned', they are advising you to be cautious, because there are risks that you may not have thought about.
- beachwear — Beachwear is the things people wear for swimming.
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- bean town — Boston, Mass. (used as a nickname).
- bear claw — a sweet, almond-flavored breakfast pastry made with yeast dough and shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw.
- bear down — If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
- bear with — If you ask someone to bear with you, you are asking them to be patient.
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- bedstraws — Plural form of bedstraw.
- bedwarmer — a metal pan containing hot coals, formerly used to warm a bed
- beeswaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of beeswax.
- beeswaxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beeswax.
- below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
- beta wave — any of the electrical waves from the parietal-frontal regions of the brain, having frequencies from 13 to 30 hertz: a sign of mental activity and alertness
- bioweapon — Bioweapons are biological weapons.
- blackweed — the common ragweed.
- blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- body wave — Geology. a transverse or longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth (distinguished from surface wave).
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- brand new — entirely new.
- brand-new — A brand-new object is completely new.
- brassware — articles made of brass, considered as a group
- breakaway — A breakaway group is a group of people who have separated from a larger group, for example because of a disagreement.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakwall — breakwater
- breezeway — a roofed passageway connecting two buildings, sometimes with the sides enclosed
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- browsable — able to be browsed
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- callowest — Superlative form of callow.
- cam wheel — a wheel, with an off-center axis or irregular shape, that functions as a cam.