9-letter words containing k, o, l, w
- plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
- quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
- rock wall — rock fence.
- rock wool — mineral wool.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- shellwork — decorative work composed of seashells: an elaborate picture frame decorated with shellwork.
- snowblink — a white luminosity on the underside of clouds, caused by the reflection of light from a snow surface.
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- steelwork — steel parts or articles.
- talk down — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- talk show — a radio or television show in which a host interviews or chats with guests, especially celebrity guests.
- towerlike — like a tower
- town milk — milk treated by pasteurization for direct consumption, as opposed to dairy factory milk for the production of butter, cheese, etc
- town talk — the usual talk, gossip, or rumors, as in a village or town.
- townsfolk — citizens, local people
- walk into — If you walk into an unpleasant situation, you become involved in it without expecting to, especially because you have been careless.
- walk over — If someone walks over you, they treat you very badly.
- walk-down — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
- walkabout — Chiefly British. a walking tour. an informal public stroll taken by members of the royal family or by a political figure for the purpose of greeting and being seen by the public.
- walkathon — a long-distance walking race for testing endurance.
- walker-on — someone who has a small part in a play or theatrical entertainment, esp one without any lines
- walkovers — Plural form of walkover.
- wall knot — a knot forming a knob at the end of a rope, made by unwinding the strands and weaving them together
- wall rock — the rock forming the walls of a vein.
- warlockry — witchcraft
- wellknown — (nonstandard) Alternative form of well-known.
- wheelwork — a train of gears, as in a timepiece.
- wikiholic — (Wiktionary and WMF jargon, neologism) A person who devotes a vast amount of time to a wiki-based project.
- wilkinson — Geoffrey, 1921–96, British chemist: Nobel prize 1973.
- willowick — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- wloclawek — a city in N central Poland, on the Vistula River.
- wolf pack — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- womanlike — like a woman; womanly.
- womenfolk — women in general; all women.
- woodblock — a block of wood engraved in relief, for printing from; woodcut.
- woodlarks — Plural form of woodlark.
- woolpacks — Plural form of woolpack.
- woolsacks — Plural form of woolsack.
- work file — a temporary file that holds data during processing
- workalike — (computing) A computer capable of running software designed for another.
- workloads — Plural form of workload.
- workmanly — Befitting a workman; skilful; workmanlike.
- workplace — a person's place of employment.
- worktable — a table with a work surface, often with drawers.
- wristlock — a hold in which an opponent's wrist is grasped and twisted.