9-letter words containing w, a, r, l
- 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.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
- fair lawn — a city in NE New Jersey.
- fallowers — Plural form of fallower.
- falsework — framework for supporting a structure under construction that is not yet capable of supporting itself.
- farewells — Plural form of farewell.
- fieldward — towards a field or fields
- fire wall — a fireproof wall to prevent the spread of fire, as from one room or compartment to the next
- firewalls — Plural form of firewall.
- flame war — Computer Slang. a series of angry, critical, or disparaging comments exchanged by two or more people in an ongoing online argument.
- flatwares — utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- flatworms — Plural form of flatworm.
- flowchart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- flowerage — the process or state of flowering.
- forwardly — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- gearwheel — a wheel having teeth or cogs that engage with those of another wheel or part; cogwheel.
- glassware — Ornaments and articles made from glass.
- glasswork — the manufacture of glass and glassware.
- glassworm — arrowworm.
- glasswort — any of several plants of the genus Salicornia, of the amaranth family, having succulent stems with rudimentary leaves, formerly used, when burned to ashes, as a source of soda for glassmaking.
- goalwards — toward or in the direction of the opposing team's goal
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- greenlawn — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- grunewald — Mathias [mah-tee-ahs] /mɑˈti ɑs/ (Show IPA), (Mathias Neithardt-Gothardt) c1470–1528, German painter and architect.
- guiltware — /gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money. 2. Shareware that works.
- hellwards — towards hell
- hogwaller — Alternative spelling of hog waller.
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- illawarra — a coastal district of E Australia, in S New South Wales. Pop: 404 626 (2002 est)
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- landowner — an owner or proprietor of land.
- landwards — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- law court — court of law.
- law lords — (in Britain) members of the House of Lords who sit as the highest court of appeal, although in theory the full House of Lords has this role