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9-letter words containing w, a

  • armyworms — Plural form of armyworm.
  • arrow key — (hardware)   One of four keys on a keyboard marked with arrows pointing up, down, left and right. The arrow keys are used for such things as moving the cursor in a text document, for moving the input focus between the fields of a form or sometimes for scrolling a picture.
  • arrowhead — An arrowhead is the sharp, pointed part of an arrow.
  • arrowless — having no arrows
  • arrowlike — resembling an arrow
  • arrowroot — Arrowroot is a substance obtained from a West Indian plant. It is used in cooking, for example for thickening sauces or in making biscuits.
  • arrowwood — any of various trees or shrubs, esp certain viburnums, having long straight tough stems formerly used by North American Indians to make arrows
  • arrowworm — any small marine invertebrate of the genus Sagitta, having an elongated transparent body with fins and prehensile oral bristles: phylum Chaetognatha (chaetognaths)
  • as few as — You use as few as before a number to suggest that it is surprisingly small.
  • asahigawa — a city on W central Hokkaido, in N Japan.
  • asahikawa — city in central Hokkaido, Japan: pop. 360,000
  • askewness — the state of being askew
  • aswan dam — a dam on the Nile built in 1902 and twice raised in height; now replaced by the Aswan High Dam
  • at a word — at once
  • auschwitz — an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)
  • aw shucks — characterized by a shy, embarrassed, often provincial manner.
  • aw-shucks — seeming to be modest, self-deprecating, or shy
  • awakeness — The quality or state of being awake.
  • awakening — the start of a feeling or awareness in a person
  • awardable — Capable of being awarded.
  • awareness — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
  • away game — a game played at an opponent's ground
  • away goal — a goal scored by a team playing away from its home ground. Away goals count for more than home goals in certain competitions
  • away team — a team playing away from its home ground.
  • away with — a command for a person to go or be removed
  • awesomely — causing or inducing awe; inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear: an awesome sight.
  • awesomest — Superlative form of awesome.
  • awestrike — to inspire great awe in
  • awestruck — If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something.
  • awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
  • awkwardly — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
  • awl snail — any tiny, usually white land snail of the family Subulinidae, some introduced species being pests of hothouse flowers.
  • b & w — black and white
  • baby wipe — a disposable moistened medicated paper towel, usually supplied in a plastic drum or packet, used for cleaning babies
  • back away — If you back away from a commitment that you made or something that you were involved with in the past, you try to show that you are no longer committed to it or involved with it.
  • back down — If you back down, you withdraw a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, because other people are strongly opposed to it.
  • back-wind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
  • backdowns — Plural form of backdown.
  • backflows — Plural form of backflow.
  • backswept — slanting backwards
  • backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
  • backsword — a person who uses the backsword
  • backwards — If you move or look backwards, you move or look in the direction that your back is facing.
  • backwater — A backwater is a place that is isolated.
  • backwoods — If you refer to an area as the backwoods, you mean that it is a long way from large towns and is isolated from modern life.
  • backwords — Plural form of backword.
  • bailiwick — the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
  • baldwin i — 1058–1118, crusader and first king of Jerusalem (1100–18), who captured Acre (1104), Beirut (1109), and Sidon (1110)
  • ball hawk — Baseball. an outfielder with outstanding defensive skills, especially at fielding fly balls.
  • balsawood — The wood of the balsa tree.
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