9-letter words containing w, a, f, e
- forwarder — a person who forwards.
- fosse way — a Roman road in Britain between Lincoln and Exeter, with a fosse on each side
- frame saw — a saw with a thin blade held in a specially shaped frame
- framework — a skeletal structure designed to support or enclose something.
- freakshow — Alternative spelling of freak show.
- freewoman — a woman who is free or at liberty, esp one who is not a slave or serf
- game fowl — a domestic fowl of a breed much used for fighting.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- luftwaffe — air force.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- mews flat — a flat or apartment situated in a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings
- newfangle — (obsolete) Eager for novelties; desirous of changing.
- newsflash — flash (def 6).
- not a few — quite a lot
- powfagged — exhausted
- red dwarf — any of the faint reddish stars having diameters about half that of the sun and low surface temperatures, about 2000–3000 K; a main sequence star of spectral type M.
- reforward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- rewardful — offering reward; rewarding
- safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
- sawed-off — sawed off at the end, as a shotgun or broomstick.
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- selfwards — in the direction of oneself
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
- swear for — to give assurance for; guarantee
- swear off — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sweat off — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- sweetleaf — a shrub or small tree, Symplocos tinctoria, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having lance-shaped leaves, yellowish, fragrant flowers, and orange or brown fruit.
- tafelwein — German table wine
- two-faced — having two faces.
- waferlike — Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
- waffen ss — the militarized formations of the SS, established by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 and including some units of foreign nationals from occupied territories.
- wakefield — a city in West Yorkshire, in N England: battle 1460.
- wakefully — In a wakeful manner.
- waldflute — an organ flute stop
- wall fern — the polypody, especially Polypodium vulgare or P. virginianum.
- war fever — widespread enthusiasm for going to war
- wasterful — Lb obsolete wasteful.
- waterfall — a steep fall or flow of water in a watercourse from a height, as over a precipice; cascade.
- waterford — a county in Munster province, in the S Republic of Ireland. 710 sq. mi. (1840 sq. km).
- waterfowl — a water bird, especially a swimming bird.
- waterleaf — any of several North American plants of the genus Hydrophyllum, having clusters of bluish or white flowers and leaves often bearing marks resembling water stains.
- wave farm — facility that generates power from the tides
- wave-form — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
- waveforms — Plural form of waveform.
- wavefront — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.