9-letter words containing i, w
- dinwiddie — Robert, 1693–1770, British colonial administrator in America: lieutenant governor of Virginia 1751–58.
- dipswitch — (electronics, computing) A miniature switch designed to be attached to a circuit board to customize the behavior of the circuit.
- dire dawa — city in E Ethiopia: pop. 98,000
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- dirty war — a war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the regime's use of kidnapping, torture, and murder, with members of the civilian population often the victims.
- disallows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disallow.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- disavowed — Deny any responsibility or support for.
- disendows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disendow.
- dishallow — to profane; desecrate.
- dishtowel — a towel for drying dishes.
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- disowning — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- dowdiness — The characteristic of being dowdy; frumpiness; plainness.
- dowelling — Present participle of dowel.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- down with — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- down-time — (jargon) A period of time during which a (computer) system is not operational, due to a malfunction or maintenance.
- downfield — In or to a position nearer to the opponents' end of a field.
- downiness — The quality of being downy.
- downlight — a lamp, often a light bulb set in a metal cylinder, mounted on or recessed into the ceiling so that a beam of light is directed downward.
- downlinks — Plural form of downlink.
- downpipes — Plural form of downpipe.
- downright — thorough; absolute; out-and-out: a downright falsehood.
- downriver — Toward or situated at a point nearer the mouth of a river.
- downshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- downsides — Plural form of downside.
- downsized — Simple past tense and past participle of downsize.
- downsizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downsize.
- downslide — a decline or downward trend, as of prices.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- downswing — a downward swing, as of a golf club in driving a ball.
- downticks — Plural form of downtick.
- downweigh — (transitive) To weigh or press down; depress; cause to sink or prevent from rising.
- draw fire — If you draw fire for something that you have done, you cause people to criticize you or attack you because of it.
- draw into — involve sb in sth
- draw rein — to tighten the reins
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- driftwood — wood floating on a body of water or cast ashore by it.
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- drownings — Plural form of drowning.
- dustywing — any of the rare, minute neuropterous insects of the family Coniopterygidae, characterized by a white, powdery body and wing cover, large eyes, long and slender antennae, and chewing mouthparts.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- dwellings — a building or place of shelter to live in; place of residence; abode; home.
- dwindling — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
- earwigged — Simple past tense and past participle of earwig.