9-letter words containing w, a, l
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
- blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
- boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- boxwallah — an itinerant pedlar or salesman in India
- breakwall — breakwater
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- browallia — any plant of the Browallia genus of South American flowering plants
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- browsable — able to be browsed
- bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- 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.
- callowest — Superlative form of callow.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- cam wheel — a wheel, with an off-center axis or irregular shape, that functions as a cam.
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- canon law — Canon law is the law of the Christian church. It has authority only for that church and its members.
- cartwheel — If you do a cartwheel, you do a fast, circular movement with your body. You fall sideways, put your hands on the ground, swing your legs over, and return to a standing position.
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- cell wall — the outer layer of a cell, esp the structure in plant cells that consists of cellulose, lignin, etc, and gives mechanical support to the cell
- cellarway — the entrance leading into a cellar
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- chow hall — canteen, refectory
- civil law — Civil law is the part of a country's set of laws which is concerned with the private affairs of citizens, for example marriage and property ownership, rather than with crime.
- civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- claw back — If someone claws back some of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again.
- claw foot — a foot with claws.
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- clearways — Plural form of clearway.
- clearweed — a plant from the nettle family
- clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
- clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- 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.