9-letter words containing w, d, o, a
- wash down — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- wash load — a load of washing which is put in a washing machine
- washboard — a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
- watchword — a word or short phrase to be communicated, on challenge, to a sentinel or guard; password or countersign.
- water dog — a dog trained to hunt in water
- waterbody — Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
- waterdogs — Plural form of waterdog.
- waterford — a county in Munster province, in the S Republic of Ireland. 710 sq. mi. (1840 sq. km).
- wave down — If someone waves down a vehicle, they wave their hand as a signal to the driver to stop the vehicle.
- wear down — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- wild boar — a wild Old World swine, Sus scrofa, from which most of the domestic hogs are believed to be derived.
- wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- woadwaxen — an ornamental Eurasian shrub, Genista tinctoria, whose flowers yield a yellow dye formerly used with woad to make a permanent green dye.
- woman-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy; based on a standard number of woman-hours in a day of work.
- womanhood — the state of being a woman; womanly character or qualities.
- womanized — to make effeminate.
- womankind — women, as distinguished from men; the female sex.
- wood coal — brown coal; lignite.
- wood dale — a town in NE Illinois.
- wood opal — a form of petrified wood impregnated by common opal
- wood sage — a downy labiate perennial, Teucrium scorodonia, having spikes of green-yellow flowers: common on acid heath and scree in Europe and naturalized in North America
- woodchats — Plural form of woodchat.
- woodcraft — skill in anything that pertains to the woods or forest, especially in making one's way through the woods or in hunting, trapping, etc.
- woodenman — HOLWG, DoD, 1975. Second of the series of DoD requirements that led to Ada. "Woodenman Set of Criteria and Needed Characteristics for a Common DoD High Order Programming Language", David A. Fisher, Inst for Def Anal Working Paper, Aug 1975. (See Strawman, Tinman, Ironman, Steelman).
- woodgrain — a material or finish that imitates the natural grain of wood in pattern, color, and sometimes texture.
- woodhaven — a city in SE Michigan.
- woodlands — Plural form of woodland.
- woodlarks — Plural form of woodlark.
- woodwaxen — woadwaxen.
- word game — any game or contest involving skill in using, forming, guessing, or changing words or expressions, such as anagrams or Scrabble.
- word wrap — a feature of word-processing systems and some electronic typewriters that automatically moves a word to a new line to avoid overrunning the margin.
- wordbreak — the point at which a word is divided when it runs over from one line of print to the next
- workloads — Plural form of workload.
- world car — an automobile designed to be built with standard parts manufactured in various countries and sold, with few changes, throughout the world.
- world war — a war that involves most of the principal nations of the world.
- worldbeat — a type of folk music combined with western mainstream influences
- woundable — Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.
- wrapround — made so as to be wrapped round something
- wyandotte — a city in SE Michigan, on the Detroit River.
- zantewood — Fustic (tree).
- zebrawood — any of several trees, especially Connarus guianensis, of tropical America, yielding a striped, hard wood used for making furniture.