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9-letter words containing w, a, l, o

  • low water — water at its lowest level, as in a river.
  • low-class — vulgar, coarse, or undignified
  • low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
  • lowballed — Simple past tense and past participle of lowball.
  • lower jaw — the mandible or lower part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. In higher vertebrates the lower jaw is fused to the cranium and the upper jaw
  • lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
  • lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
  • lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
  • macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
  • mailwoman — (rare) A female postal worker.
  • mailwomen — Plural form of mailwoman.
  • maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
  • matholwch — a legendary king of Ireland and the husband of Branwen.
  • mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
  • mealworms — Plural form of mealworm.
  • metalwork — objects made of metal.
  • milkwoman — A woman who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
  • mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.
  • mold-warp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • mollyhawk — the juvenile of the southern black-backed gull, Larus dominicanus
  • mollymawk — any of various oceanic birds, as the fulmar or albatross.
  • moon walk — a walk on the moon
  • moonwalks — Plural form of moonwalk.
  • 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.
  • nanoworld — The sphere of influence of nanotechnology.
  • navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
  • nonlawyer — a person who is not a lawyer
  • ohm's law — the law that for any circuit the electric current is directly proportional to the voltage and is inversely proportional to the resistance.
  • old squaw — a sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, of arctic and subarctic regions.
  • old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
  • old woman — elderly lady
  • oldsquaws — Plural form of oldsquaw.
  • 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.
  • outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
  • own label — Own label is the same as own brand.
  • paulownia — a Japanese tree, Paulownia tomentosa, of the bignonia family, having showy clusters of pale-violet or blue flowers blossoming in early spring.
  • peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
  • plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
  • play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
  • polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
  • polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
  • poor laws — laws that provide for public relief and assistance for the poor
  • powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
  • prowl car — squad car.
  • railwoman — a female worker on a railway
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