9-letter words containing w, a, g
- wall plug — an electrical outlet permanently mounted on a wall.
- wall-hung — designed to be hung from or attached to a wall: a wall-hung medicine cabinet for the bathroom.
- wallering — (slang, US, pejorative) present participle of waller.
- walloping — a vigorous blow.
- wallowing — to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.
- wallydrag — a feeble, dwarfed animal or person.
- walpurgis — Saint, a.d. c710–780, English missionary and abbess in Germany: feast day May 1.
- wampanoag — a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement.
- wandering — moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
- wantoning — Present participle of wanton.
- war grave — a grave of a person killed in battle; a ship that was sunk in battle with troops aboard
- warmonger — a person who advocates, endorses, or tries to precipitate war.
- warningly — the act or utterance of one who warns or the existence, appearance, sound, etc., of a thing that warns.
- wastingly — In a way that causes wastage; wastefully.
- water bag — a bag, sometimes made of skin, leather, etc, but in Australia usually canvas, for holding, carrying, and keeping water cool
- water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- water dog — a dog trained to hunt in water
- water gap — a transverse gap in a mountain ridge, cut by and giving passage to a stream or river.
- water gas — a toxic gaseous mixture consisting chiefly of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, prepared from steam and incandescent coke: used as an illuminant, fuel, and in organic synthesis.
- water gum — any of several Australian trees of the myrtle family, growing near water.
- water gun — water pistol.
- water hog — a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
- waterdogs — Plural form of waterdog.
- watergate — a White House political scandal that came to light during the 1972 presidential campaign, growing out of a break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate apartment-office complex in Washington, D.C., and, after congressional hearings, culminating in the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
- waterings — Plural form of watering.
- waveguide — a conduit, as a metal tube, coaxial cable, or strand of glass fibers, used as a conductor or directional transmitter for various kinds of electromagnetic waves.
- wax light — a candle made of wax.
- way to go — Well done!
- wayfaring — (of a person) traveling on foot.
- waylaying — Present participle of waylay.
- wayzgoose — A holiday or party for the benefit of printers, traditionally held in August.
- weakening — Present participle of weaken.
- weaklings — Plural form of weakling.
- weanlings — Plural form of weanling.
- wearingly — gradually impairing or wasting: Reading small print can be wearing on the eyes.
- weaseling — (US) present participle of weasel.
- weighable — Heavy enough to be weighed.
- weightman — a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
- well-aged — having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man; an aged tree.
- wergeland — Henrik Arnold. 1808–45, Norwegian poet and nationalist, remembered for his lyric and narrative verse
- whangarei — a port in New Zealand, the northernmost city of North Island: oil refinery. Pop: 72 200 (2004 est)
- wheatgerm — Wheatgerm is the middle part of a grain of wheat which is rich in vitamins and is often added to other food.
- whiz-bang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- wigmakers — Plural form of wigmaker.
- wigwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of wigwag.
- windgalls — Plural form of windgall.
- wineglass — a drinking glass, as a goblet, having a foot and a stem and used specifically for serving wine.
- wing back — In football, a wing back is a defender who also takes part in attacking play.
- wing case — elytron.