9-letter words containing s, a, w
- wednesday — the fourth day of the week, following Tuesday.
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- well-cast — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- welladays — alas
- wellaways — alas
- wellheads — Plural form of wellhead.
- wenceslas — 1361–1419, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1378–1400; as Wenceslaus IV, king of Bohemia 1378–1419.
- west bank — an area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel: occupied in 1967 and subsequently claimed by Israel; formerly held by Jordan.
- westabout — in, to, or towards the west
- westfalen — German name of Westphalia.
- westmeath — a county in Leinster in the N central Republic of Ireland. 681 sq. mi. (1765 sq. km). County seat: Mullingar.
- westwards — Westward.
- wet basis — A wet basis is a measure of the water in a solid, expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the wet solid.
- wet shave — a shave in which lather and a razor are used, as opposed to an electric shaver
- wet steam — steam, usually low-pressure, that contains water droplets in suspension
- wheatless — without wheat
- wheelbase — the distance from the center of the front-wheel spindle to the center of the rear-wheel axle.
- wheyfaces — Plural form of wheyface.
- whimsical — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
- whipsawed — subjected to a double loss, as when an investor has bought a stock at a high price soon before it declines and then, in order to make good the loss, sells it short before it advances.
- whipsnake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- whipstaff — a bar attached to a ship's tiller to assist with steering
- whipstall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiptails — Plural form of whiptail.
- white ash — any of various trees of the genus Fraxinus, of the olive family, especially F. excelsior, of Europe and Asia, or F. americana (white ash) of North America, having opposite, pinnate leaves and purplish flowers in small clusters.
- white sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean, in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. About 36,000 sq. mi. (93,240 sq. km).
- whitebass — a freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the bass family Moronidae, native to North American lakes and rivers
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.
- whitewash — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
- who cares — I don't care
- wholesale — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- widthways — Widthwise The direction of the width of an object or place.
- wiesbaden — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- wieschaus — Eric, born 1947, U.S.-born biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- wigmakers — Plural form of wigmaker.
- wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wildcards — Plural form of wildcard.
- wildlands — land that has not been cultivated, especially land set aside and protected as a wilderness.
- williwaws — Plural form of williwaw.
- wilsonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Woodrow Wilson.
- wind sail — a sail rigged over a hatchway, ventilator, or the like, to divert moving air downward into the vessel.
- windblast — a strong, sudden gust of wind.
- windfalls — Plural form of windfall.
- windgalls — Plural form of windgall.
- windsails — Plural form of windsail.
- windscale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- windshake — a crack between the annual rings in wood: caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
- windwards — in the direction of the wind
- wine cask — a strong wooden barrel used to hold wine