9-letter words containing w, a, d, e
- eastwards — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- edge wave — a wave aligned at right angles to the shoreline.
- 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.
- enswathed — Simple past tense and past participle of enswathe.
- enwrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of enwrap.
- eyeshadow — A colored cosmetic, typically in powder form, applied to the eyelids or to the skin around the eyes to accentuate them.
- face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- fade away — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- fadeaways — Plural form of fadeaway.
- fake-down — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- feedwater — water to be supplied to a boiler from a tank or condenser for conversion into steam.
- fieldward — towards a field or fields
- fine-draw — Sewing. to sew together so finely that the joining is not noticeable.
- finedrawn — Drawn out with too much subtlety; overnice.
- forwander — to wander far
- forwarded — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- forwarder — a person who forwards.
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- grandview — a town in W Missouri.
- graveward — moving towards the grave or death
- greenward — Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
- grunewald — Mathias [mah-tee-ahs] /mɑˈti ɑs/ (Show IPA), (Mathias Neithardt-Gothardt) c1470–1528, German painter and architect.
- guideways — Plural form of guideway.
- hacksawed — Simple past tense and past participle of hacksaw.
- hand-sewn — sewn by hand.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- handwheel — a wheel, as a valve wheel, turned by hand.
- handwoven — made on a handloom; handloomed.
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- hard news — serious news of widespread import, concerning politics, foreign affairs, or the like, as distinguished from routine news items, feature stories, or human-interest stories.
- hardwired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
- hawk-eyed — having very keen sight: a hawk-eyed guard.
- hawkweeds — Plural form of hawkweed.
- hazelwood — a town in E Missouri.
- head wall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- head wind — wind blowing head-on
- headwards — backwards beyond the original source
- headwater — A tributary stream of a river close to or forming part of its source.
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- heartwood — the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
- hellwards — towards hell
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.