9-letter words containing w, a
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- boxwallah — an itinerant pedlar or salesman in India
- brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- brand new — entirely new.
- brand-new — A brand-new object is completely new.
- brassware — articles made of brass, considered as a group
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- breakaway — A breakaway group is a group of people who have separated from a larger group, for example because of a disagreement.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakwall — breakwater
- breezeway — a roofed passageway connecting two buildings, sometimes with the sides enclosed
- briarwood — any of several woods used to make tobacco pipes
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- browallia — any plant of the Browallia genus of South American flowering plants
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- brown bag — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control
- brown rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
- brown-bag — If you brown-bag your lunch or you brown-bag it, you bring your lunch in a bag to work or school.
- browsable — able to be browsed
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- burrawang — any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut
- bushwhack — to ambush
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- by way of — You use by way of when you are explaining the purpose of something that you have said or are about to say. For example, if you say something by way of an introduction, you say it as an introduction.
- byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- c & w — country and western
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- call down — to request or invoke
- call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- callowest — Superlative form of callow.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- cam wheel — a wheel, with an off-center axis or irregular shape, that functions as a cam.
- can't win — If you say that someone can't win in a particular situation, you mean that they are certain to fail or to suffer whatever they do.
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- canon law — Canon law is the law of the Christian church. It has authority only for that church and its members.
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- cape town — the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 3 740 026 (2011)
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.