9-letter words containing w, a, s, i
- want list — a list of desired items, as stamps, coins, or books, circulated among dealers by a hobbyist, museum, or collector seeking to locate and purchase them.
- waribashi — disposable chopsticks made of wood or bamboo
- wash-wipe — a windscreen wiper
- washbasin — a large bowl or basin used for washing one's hands and face, small articles of clothing, etc.
- washiness — the state or quality of being washy.
- waspishly — In a waspish manner.
- wassailed — Simple past tense and past participle of wassail.
- wassailer — One who wassails.
- wassailry — revelry
- wasteweir — A weir that allows the escape of excess water from a canal or reservoir.
- wastingly — In a way that causes wastage; wastefully.
- watchlist — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
- water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
- waterings — Plural form of watering.
- waterside — the margin, bank, or shore of a river, lake, ocean, etc.
- waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.
- waypoints — Plural form of waypoint.
- weak side — the side of the offensive line opposite the side with the tight end, thereby the side having the smaller number of players.
- weakliest — Superlative form of weakly.
- weaklings — Plural form of weakling.
- weanlings — Plural form of weanling.
- wear ship — to change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
- weariless — unwearying; tireless: a weariless vigil.
- weariness — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
- wearisome — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weaseling — (US) present participle of weasel.
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- wet basis — A wet basis is a measure of the water in a solid, expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the wet solid.
- whimsical — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
- whipsawed — subjected to a double loss, as when an investor has bought a stock at a high price soon before it declines and then, in order to make good the loss, sells it short before it advances.
- whipsnake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- whipstaff — a bar attached to a ship's tiller to assist with steering
- whipstall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiptails — Plural form of whiptail.
- white ash — any of various trees of the genus Fraxinus, of the olive family, especially F. excelsior, of Europe and Asia, or F. americana (white ash) of North America, having opposite, pinnate leaves and purplish flowers in small clusters.
- white sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean, in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. About 36,000 sq. mi. (93,240 sq. km).
- whitebass — a freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the bass family Moronidae, native to North American lakes and rivers
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.
- whitewash — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
- widthways — Widthwise The direction of the width of an object or place.
- wiesbaden — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- wieschaus — Eric, born 1947, U.S.-born biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
- wigmakers — Plural form of wigmaker.
- wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wildcards — Plural form of wildcard.
- wildlands — land that has not been cultivated, especially land set aside and protected as a wilderness.
- williwaws — Plural form of williwaw.
- wilsonian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Woodrow Wilson.
- wind sail — a sail rigged over a hatchway, ventilator, or the like, to divert moving air downward into the vessel.