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9-letter words containing r, e, w

  • downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
  • downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
  • downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
  • downrange — (of a missile, space launch, etc.) traveling in a specified direction away from the launch site and toward the target.
  • downriver — Toward or situated at a point nearer the mouth of a river.
  • downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
  • 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 game — a game in which a player must keep drawing pieces from the boneyard until a playable one is drawn.
  • draw gear — an apparatus for coupling railway cars
  • draw rein — to tighten the reins
  • draw-gate — the valve that controls a sluice
  • drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
  • drawerful — an amount sufficient to fill a drawer: a drawerful of socks.
  • drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
  • drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
  • drawshave — drawknife.
  • drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
  • drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
  • dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
  • dwarfness — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
  • eachwhere — all over or in every place
  • ear sewer — Dialect. a dragonfly.
  • earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
  • earthward — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
  • earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
  • earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
  • earwigged — Simple past tense and past participle of earwig.
  • earwormed — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
  • eastwards — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
  • echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
  • edgeworthMaria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
  • edward ii — 1284–1327, king of England 1307–27 (son of Edward I).
  • edward iv — 1442–83, king of England 1461–70, 1471–1483: 1st king of the house of York.
  • edward vi — 1537–53, king of England 1547–53 (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).
  • edwardian — of or relating to the reign of Edward VII.
  • eiderdown — Small, soft feathers from the breast of the female eider duck.
  • elbowroom — Sufficient space to have freedom of movement.
  • elderwort — Danewort.
  • ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
  • elsewhere — In, at, or to some other place or other places.
  • embowered — Simple past tense and past participle of embower.
  • embrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of embrown.
  • empowered — (US) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.
  • endowered — Simple past tense and past participle of endower.
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