9-letter words containing w, a, i, l
- idle away — time, hours: pass lazily
- illawarra — a coastal district of E Australia, in S New South Wales. Pop: 404 626 (2002 est)
- kilowatts — Plural form of kilowatt.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- kwajalein — an atoll in the Marshall Islands, in E Micronesia. About 78 miles (126 km) long.
- lacewings — Plural form of lacewing.
- land wind — land breeze.
- land with — to give to, so as to put in difficulties; cause to be burdened with
- land-wind — a wind that comes from the land
- langwidge — Eye dialect of language.
- lawgivers — Plural form of lawgiver.
- lawgiving — Enacting laws; legislative.
- lawmaking — a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- lawyering — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- leastwise — at least; at any rate.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- limewater — an aqueous solution of slaked lime, used in medicine, antacids, and lotions, and to absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
- low latin — any form of nonclassical Latin, as Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, or Medieval Latin.
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- mailwoman — (rare) A female postal worker.
- mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- meanwhile — meantime.
- milkwoman — A woman who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
- milky way — the spiral galaxy containing our solar system. With the naked eye it is observed as a faint luminous band stretching across the heavens, composed of approximately a trillion stars, most of which are too distant to be seen individually.
- milliwatt — a unit of power equal to one thousandth of a watt. Abbreviation: mW.
- milwaukee — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- milwaukie — a town in NW Oregon.
- multiwall — having a wall or casing composed of layers of material, often pressed closely together: multiwall bags for shipping grain.
- nail down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- nail-down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- new latin — the Latin that became current, notably in scientific literature, after the Renaissance, c1500. Abbreviation: NL, NL., N.L.
- nidwalden — a demicanton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 106 sq. mi. (275 sq. km). Capital: Stans.
- orwellian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
- outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- paulownia — a Japanese tree, Paulownia tomentosa, of the bignonia family, having showy clusters of pale-violet or blue flowers blossoming in early spring.
- plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
- plainview — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- plan view — plan (def 4).
- play with — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- railwoman — a female worker on a railway
- rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
- rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
- riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
- salic law — a code of laws of the Salian Franks and other Germanic tribes, especially a provision in this code excluding females from the inheritance of land.
- scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- sei whale — a rorqual, Balaenoptera borealis, inhabiting all seas: now greatly reduced in number.
- shadowily — in a shadowy way or manner