9-letter words containing l, w
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- downslide — a decline or downward trend, as of prices.
- downslope — A downward slope.
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- draw-loom — an early handloom used for producing figured fabrics.
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawerful — an amount sufficient to fill a drawer: a drawerful of socks.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- drywalled — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- drywaller — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- duck-walk — to walk like a duck, as with legs apart and feet turned outward.
- dust bowl — the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
- dust well — a hollow in the surface of a glacier, formed by the melting action of dust or soil deposits.
- 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.
- eagle owl — any of several large owls of the genus Bubo, having prominent tufts of feathers on each side of the head, especially B. bubo of Europe and Asia.
- eaglewood — agalloch.
- earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
- ebbw vale — a town in S Wales, in Blaenau Gwent county borough: a former coal mining centre. Pop: 18 558 (2001)
- ecofallow — a method of farming that diminishes weeds and conserves water by rotating crops and reducing or eliminating tillage.
- edelweiss — a small composite plant, Leontopodium alpinum, having white woolly leaves and flowers, growing in the high altitudes of the Alps.
- elbowlike — Resembling an elbow.
- elbowroom — Sufficient space to have freedom of movement.
- elderwort — Danewort.
- elfinwood — Krummholz.
- ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
- elsewhere — In, at, or to some other place or other places.
- emboweled — Simple past tense and past participle of embowel.
- end-blown — (of a recorder) held downwards and blown through one end
- erstwhile — Former.
- ethelwulf — died 858 ad, king of Wessex (839–858)
- evil twin — mythology: wicked other self
- fair lawn — a city in NE New Jersey.
- fall away — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fall down — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fall wind — a strong, cold, downhill wind.
- fallowers — Plural form of fallower.
- fallowing — (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
- falsework — framework for supporting a structure under construction that is not yet capable of supporting itself.
- farewells — Plural form of farewell.
- fawn lily — any of several lilies of the genus Erythronium, of western North America, as E. californicum, having mottled leaves and cream-white flowers.
- fawningly — In a feigning manner; falsely.
- fellowman — another member of the human race, especially a kindred human being: Don't deny full recognition to your fellowmen.
- fellowmen — another member of the human race, especially a kindred human being: Don't deny full recognition to your fellowmen.
- fieldward — towards a field or fields
- fieldwork — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.