9-letter words containing w, a, n
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damp down — To damp down something such as a strong emotion, an argument, or a crisis means to make it calmer or less intense.
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- darwinian — of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dawn raid — If police officers carry out a dawn raid, they go to someone's house very early in the morning to search it or arrest them.
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- dew plant — sundew.
- dew snail — a slug
- dial down — to reduce or become reduced
- doorwoman — the female door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and performs minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.
- down card — a card that is dealt and played face down, as in blackjack and stud poker.
- down east — New England.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- downdraft — a downward current, as of air: a downdraft in a mine shaft.
- downfalls — Plural form of downfall.
- downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
- 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.
- downrange — (of a missile, space launch, etc.) traveling in a specified direction away from the launch site and toward the target.
- 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.
- downstage — at or toward the front of the stage.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- downstate — the southern part of a U.S. state.
- downwards — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- downy oak — Quercus pubescens
- drag down — demoralize
- draw down — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw into — involve sb in sth
- draw rein — to tighten the reins
- draw upon — use as source or resource
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- drawn-out — long-drawn-out.
- drawnwork — Ornamental work on linen or other fabric, done by drawing out threads and usually with additional needlework.
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- dwarfness — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- eatontown — a borough in E central New Jersey.
- edwardian — of or relating to the reign of Edward VII.
- enswathed — Simple past tense and past participle of enswathe.
- entryways — Plural form of entryway.
- enwrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of enwrap.