9-letter words containing w, a, r, d
- waldgrave — (in the Holy Roman Empire) an officer having jurisdiction over a royal forest.
- wallboard — material manufactured in large sheets for use in making or covering walls, ceilings, etc., as a substitute for wooden boards or plaster.
- wallydrag — a feeble, dwarfed animal or person.
- wanderers — Mechanics. the drift of a gyroscope or a similar device.
- wandering — moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
- wandorobo — Dorobo.
- war bride — a woman who marries a serviceman about to go overseas in wartime.
- war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
- war dance — a dance preliminary to going into battle or in celebration of a victory, as formerly among American Indians.
- war widow — A war widow is a woman whose husband was killed while he was in the armed forces during a war.
- wardmotes — Plural form of wardmote.
- wardrober — the employee of a royal household in charge of clothing
- wardrobes — Plural form of wardrobe.
- wardrooms — Plural form of wardroom.
- warm down — If you warm down after doing a physical activity, you do special exercises to help relax your muscles and joints.
- warm-down — a tapering off or recovery from strenuous physical exercise, especially running or racing, by slowing down or doing light stretches.
- warmblood — A horse of a breed that is a cross between an Arab or similar breed and another breed of the draft or pony type.
- warmed-up — warmed-over (def 1).
- warranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- washboard — a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
- watchword — a word or short phrase to be communicated, on challenge, to a sentinel or guard; password or countersign.
- water bed — a bed having a liquid-filled rubber or plastic mattress in a rigid, often heated, waterproof frame, and providing a surface that conforms to the sleeper's body in any position.
- water dog — a dog trained to hunt in water
- waterbeds — Plural form of waterbed.
- waterbird — A bird that frequents water, especially one that habitually wades or swims in fresh water.
- waterbody — Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
- waterdogs — Plural form of waterdog.
- waterford — a county in Munster province, in the S Republic of Ireland. 710 sq. mi. (1840 sq. km).
- waterhead — the source of a river or stream.
- watershed — Chiefly British. the ridge or crest line dividing two drainage areas; water parting; divide.
- waterside — the margin, bank, or shore of a river, lake, ocean, etc.
- waterward — in the direction of water or a body of water.
- waterweed — elodea.
- waymarked — Marked with a waymark.
- waywardly — In a wayward manner.
- wazirabad — Balkh.
- wear down — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- weariedly — In an wearied manner; wearily.
- weathered — seasoned or otherwise affected by exposure to the weather.
- weedeater — A string trimmer.
- well-read — having read extensively (sometimes followed by in): well-read in oceanography.
- wergeland — Henrik Arnold. 1808–45, Norwegian poet and nationalist, remembered for his lyric and narrative verse
- westwards — Westward.
- wet dream — nocturnal emission.
- wheatbird — A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
- whitbread — Fatima. born 1961, British javelin thrower: won gold at the World Championships (1987)
- wild boar — a wild Old World swine, Sus scrofa, from which most of the domestic hogs are believed to be derived.
- wild card — card game: substitute card
- wild pear — a wild variety of pear, especially Pyrus pyraster or Pyrus caucasica
- wild-card — of, constituting, or including a wild card.