9-letter words containing w, a, d
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
- call down — to request or invoke
- call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- catchweed — a weedy plant with a prickly stem
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- cedarwood — the wood of a cedar tree
- chafeweed — wood cudweed.
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clearweed — a plant from the nettle family
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- coachwood — an Australian tree, Ceratopetalum apetalum, yielding light aromatic wood used for furniture, turnery, etc
- coastward — towards the coast
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- cold-draw — to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) without preheating the metal.
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crawdaddy — crawdad.
- crazyweed — locoweed
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damp down — To damp down something such as a strong emotion, an argument, or a crisis means to make it calmer or less intense.
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- darwinian — of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- data flow — (architecture) A data flow architecture or language performs a computation when all the operands are available. Data flow is one kind of data driven architecture, the other is demand driven. It is a technique for specifying fine-grain concurrency, usually in the form of two-dimensional graphs in which instructions that are available for concurrent execution are written alongside each other while those that must be executed in sequence are written one under the other. Data dependencies between instructions are indicated by directed arcs. Instructions do not reference memory since the data dependence arcs allow data to be transmitted directly from the producing instruction to the consuming one. Data flow schemes differ chiefly in the way that they handle re-entrant code. Static schemes disallow it, dynamic schemes use either "code copying" or "tagging" at every point of reentry. An example of a data flow architecture is MIT's VAL machine.
- dataviews — Graphical user interface development software from V.I.Corporation, aimed at constructing platform-independent interactive views of dynamic data.
- dawn raid — If police officers carry out a dawn raid, they go to someone's house very early in the morning to search it or arrest them.
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- dead wire — a wire that is not carrying current
- dead wood — People or things that have been used for a very long time and that are no longer considered to be useful can be referred to as dead wood.