9-letter words containing w, a
- bandwagon — You can refer to an activity or movement that has suddenly become fashionable or popular as a bandwagon.
- bandwidth — A bandwidth is the range of frequencies used for a particular telecommunications signal, radio transmission, or computer network.
- bangweulu — shallow lake in N Zambia: including swamps, 3,800 sq mi (9,842 sq km)
- bankstown — a city in SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
- barrowful — The amount that can fit in a barrow.
- bashawism — the combined characteristics of a bashaw, esp haughtiness, imperiousness
- basswoods — Plural form of basswood.
- bathwater — water in which a person bathes
- batswoman — a female batsman
- batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
- bawdiness — indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- be warned — If someone says to you 'be warned', they are advising you to be cautious, because there are risks that you may not have thought about.
- beachwear — Beachwear is the things people wear for swimming.
- beam wind — a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
- bean town — Boston, Mass. (used as a nickname).
- bear claw — a sweet, almond-flavored breakfast pastry made with yeast dough and shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw.
- bear down — If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
- bear with — If you ask someone to bear with you, you are asking them to be patient.
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- bedstraws — Plural form of bedstraw.
- bedwarmer — a metal pan containing hot coals, formerly used to warm a bed
- beeswaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of beeswax.
- beeswaxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beeswax.
- below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
- beta wave — any of the electrical waves from the parietal-frontal regions of the brain, having frequencies from 13 to 30 hertz: a sign of mental activity and alertness
- bioweapon — Bioweapons are biological weapons.
- bird walk — an excursion, usually undertaken as a group with an expert leader, for observing and studying birds in their natural habitat.
- birdwatch — to watch birds
- black cow — Midwestern U.S. a root beer float containing vanilla ice cream.
- black haw — any of several E U.S. shrubs or small trees (genus Viburnum) of the honeysuckle family, having blue-black fruits
- blacktown — a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.
- blackwash — to present (someone or something) in the worst possible light
- blackweed — the common ragweed.
- blackwell — Elizabeth1821-1910; 1st woman physician in the U.S., born in England
- blackwood — a tall Australian acacia tree, A. melanoxylon, having small clusters of flowers and curved pods and yielding highly valued black timber
- blackwork — embroidery done with black, usually silk, thread on white fabric, especially linen.
- bladework — skilful use of a blade, esp with reference to rowing
- bloatware — computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements
- blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- blow-back — Blow-back is when the air flow through a carburetor suddenly changes direction. This is often caused by incorrect ignition.
- blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
- blue laws — a number of repressive puritanical laws of the colonial period, forbidding any secular activity on Sundays
- boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
- boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
- body wave — Geology. a transverse or longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth (distinguished from surface wave).
- body wrap — a beauty treatment in which the body is covered in lotion and wrapped tightly in strips of cloth in order to promote weight loss or improve skin tone
- boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
- bondwoman — a female serf or slave