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
- edgeworth — Maria, 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.