9-letter words containing l, a, w, o
- 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.
- wallaroos — Plural form of wallaroo.
- wallboard — material manufactured in large sheets for use in making or covering walls, ceilings, etc., as a substitute for wooden boards or plaster.
- wallopers — Plural form of walloper.
- walloping — a vigorous blow.
- wallopped — Simple past tense and past participle of wallop.
- wallowing — to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.
- war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
- warlockry — witchcraft
- warmblood — A horse of a breed that is a cross between an Arab or similar breed and another breed of the draft or pony type.
- wash load — a load of washing which is put in a washing machine
- washbowls — Plural form of washbowl.
- washcloth — a small cloth for washing one's face or body.
- waterfowl — a water bird, especially a swimming bird.
- waterhole — A depression in which water collects, especially one from which animals regularly drink.
- waxflower — (botany) Any plant of the genus Hoya.
- whale oil — oil rendered from whale blubber, formerly widely used as a fuel for lamps and for making soap and candles.
- whaleboat — a long, narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas: formerly used in whaling, now mainly for sea rescue.
- whalebone — an elastic, horny substance growing in place of teeth in the upper jaw of certain whales, and forming a series of thin, parallel plates on each side of the palate; baleen.
- wholemeal — whole-wheat.
- wholesale — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wild boar — a wild Old World swine, Sus scrofa, from which most of the domestic hogs are believed to be derived.
- wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wilsonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Woodrow Wilson.
- wloclawek — a city in N central Poland, on the Vistula River.
- wolf call — a whistle, shout, or the like uttered by a male in admiration of a female's appearance.
- wolf pack — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- wolframic — tungstic.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
- wollaston — William Hyde, 1766–1828, English chemist and physicist.
- womanless — Without women or a woman.
- womanlike — like a woman; womanly.
- wood coal — brown coal; lignite.
- wood dale — a town in NE Illinois.
- wood opal — a form of petrified wood impregnated by common opal
- woodlands — Plural form of woodland.
- woodlarks — Plural form of woodlark.
- wool bale — a standard-sized jute, flax, etc, cubical container of compressed wool weighing over 100 kg when containing fleece or lamb's wool and weighing 204 kg when containing oddments
- woolpacks — Plural form of woolpack.
- woolsacks — Plural form of woolsack.
- workalike — (computing) A computer capable of running software designed for another.
- workloads — Plural form of workload.
- workmanly — Befitting a workman; skilful; workmanlike.