9-letter words containing w, a, l
- coleslaws — Plural form of coleslaw.
- colorways — Plural form of colorway.
- colourway — one of several different combinations of colours in which a given pattern is printed on fabrics, wallpapers, etc
- coralwort — any of various leafless orchids of the genus Corallorhiza
- corn laws — the laws introduced in Britain in 1804 to protect domestic farmers against foreign competition by the imposition of a heavy duty on foreign corn: repealed in 1846
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
- crib-wall — a supporting wall constructed by laying cribs at right angles to each other, as in cribwork
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- crown law — criminal law
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- data flow — (architecture) A data flow architecture or language performs a computation when all the operands are available. Data flow is one kind of data driven architecture, the other is demand driven. It is a technique for specifying fine-grain concurrency, usually in the form of two-dimensional graphs in which instructions that are available for concurrent execution are written alongside each other while those that must be executed in sequence are written one under the other. Data dependencies between instructions are indicated by directed arcs. Instructions do not reference memory since the data dependence arcs allow data to be transmitted directly from the producing instruction to the consuming one. Data flow schemes differ chiefly in the way that they handle re-entrant code. Static schemes disallow it, dynamic schemes use either "code copying" or "tagging" at every point of reentry. An example of a data flow architecture is MIT's VAL machine.
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- deal with — When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
- deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
- delftware — glazed earthenware, usually blue and white, which originated in Delft
- dew plant — sundew.
- dew snail — a slug
- dewlapped — Having dewlaps (of a specified kind).
- dial down — to reduce or become reduced
- disallows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disallow.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- dishallow — to profane; desecrate.
- downfalls — Plural form of downfall.
- downloads — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- draw-loom — an early handloom used for producing figured fabrics.
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawerful — an amount sufficient to fill a drawer: a drawerful of socks.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- drywalled — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- drywaller — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- duck-walk — to walk like a duck, as with legs apart and feet turned outward.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- eagle owl — any of several large owls of the genus Bubo, having prominent tufts of feathers on each side of the head, especially B. bubo of Europe and Asia.
- eaglewood — agalloch.
- earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
- ebbw vale — a town in S Wales, in Blaenau Gwent county borough: a former coal mining centre. Pop: 18 558 (2001)
- ecofallow — a method of farming that diminishes weeds and conserves water by rotating crops and reducing or eliminating tillage.
- fair lawn — a city in NE New Jersey.
- fall away — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fall down — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fall wind — a strong, cold, downhill wind.