9-letter words containing w, a, l
- peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
- pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
- perp walk — an arranged public appearance of a recently arrested criminal for the benefit of the media
- 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).
- plateware — household dishes, especially ones made of or plated with gold or silver.
- play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play with — 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.
- plug away — keep working on sth
- 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.
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- pull away — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- race-walk — to participate in race walking.
- 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.
- renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- renewably — in a renewable fashion, in such a way as to be renewable
- reswallow — to swallow again
- rewardful — offering reward; rewarding
- riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
- rock wall — rock fence.
- roman law — the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries.
- rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
- saddlebow — the arched front part of a saddle or saddletree.
- safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
- 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.
- salt away — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- salt well — a well from which brine is obtained.
- saltwater — of or relating to salt water.
- saltworks — (often used with a plural verb) a building or plant where salt is made.
- say's law — the principle, propounded by Jean Baptiste Say, that the supply of goods is always matched by the demand for them.
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- scallawag — scalawag.
- scallywag — scalawag.
- scots law — the body of law in force in Scotland
- scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screwable — able to be screwed
- screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- seawardly — in a seaward direction