9-letter words containing w, a, d, e
- web-based — of, relating to, or using the World Wide Web
- wednesday — the fourth day of the week, following Tuesday.
- weedeater — A string trimmer.
- well-aged — having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man; an aged tree.
- well-made — skillfully built or constructed: a well-made sofa.
- well-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- well-read — having read extensively (sometimes followed by in): well-read in oceanography.
- welladays — alas
- wellheads — Plural form of wellhead.
- wergeland — Henrik Arnold. 1808–45, Norwegian poet and nationalist, remembered for his lyric and narrative verse
- westwards — Westward.
- wet dream — nocturnal emission.
- wheatbird — A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
- wheatland — a region where wheat is grown
- 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.
- whitbread — Fatima. born 1961, British javelin thrower: won gold at the World Championships (1987)
- whitedamp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.
- whitehead — Alfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.
- wideawake — (historical) A type of hat, with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
- wieldable — Capable of being wielded.
- wiesbaden — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- wigwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of wigwag.
- wild bean — groundnut (def 1).
- wild date — a feather palm, Phoenix sylvestris, of India, having drooping, bluish-green or grayish leaves and small, orange-yellow fruit.
- wild pear — a wild variety of pear, especially Pyrus pyraster or Pyrus caucasica
- wind vane — weather vane.
- windbreak — a growth of trees, a structure of boards, or the like, serving as a shelter from the wind.
- 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
- wiredrawn — drawn out long and thin like a wire.
- woadwaxen — an ornamental Eurasian shrub, Genista tinctoria, whose flowers yield a yellow dye formerly used with woad to make a permanent green dye.
- womanized — to make effeminate.
- wood dale — a town in NE Illinois.
- wood sage — a downy labiate perennial, Teucrium scorodonia, having spikes of green-yellow flowers: common on acid heath and scree in Europe and naturalized in North America
- woodenman — HOLWG, DoD, 1975. Second of the series of DoD requirements that led to Ada. "Woodenman Set of Criteria and Needed Characteristics for a Common DoD High Order Programming Language", David A. Fisher, Inst for Def Anal Working Paper, Aug 1975. (See Strawman, Tinman, Ironman, Steelman).
- woodhaven — a city in SE Michigan.
- woodwaxen — woadwaxen.
- word game — any game or contest involving skill in using, forming, guessing, or changing words or expressions, such as anagrams or Scrabble.
- wordbreak — the point at which a word is divided when it runs over from one line of print to the next
- worldbeat — a type of folk music combined with western mainstream influences
- woundable — Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.
- wunderbar — wonderful
- wyandotte — a city in SE Michigan, on the Detroit River.
- zantewood — Fustic (tree).
- zebrawood — any of several trees, especially Connarus guianensis, of tropical America, yielding a striped, hard wood used for making furniture.