9-letter words containing w, e, d, a
- hywel dda — known as Hywel the Good. died 950 ad, Welsh prince. He united S and N Wales and codified Welsh law
- idle away — time, hours: pass lazily
- janjaweed — an armed tribal militia group in the Darfur region of western Sudan
- jaywalked — Simple past tense and past participle of jaywalk.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- landowner — an owner or proprietor of land.
- langwidge — Eye dialect of language.
- lansdowne — Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice [pet-ee-fits-mawr-is,, -mor-] /ˈpɛt i fɪtsˈmɔr ɪs,, -ˈmɒr-/ (Show IPA), 5th Marquis of, 1845–1927, British statesman: viceroy of India 1888–94, foreign secretary 1900–05.
- late wood — summerwood.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- leewardly — (of a ship) tending to fall to leeward
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- lowballed — Simple past tense and past participle of lowball.
- lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- meadowrue — A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum.
- new media — developing forms of media, usually electronic, regarded as being experimental.
- newsboard — bulletin board.
- newsstand — a stall or other place at which newspapers and often periodicals are sold, as on a street corner or in a building lobby.
- newstrade — newspaper retail as a whole
- nidwalden — a demicanton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 106 sq. mi. (275 sq. km). Capital: Stans.
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
- overdrawn — Past participle of overdraw.
- overdraws — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdraw.
- pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
- powfagged — exhausted
- prewarned — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- rainbowed — containing, resembling, or involving a rainbow
- raw-boned — having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
- red dwarf — any of the faint reddish stars having diameters about half that of the sun and low surface temperatures, about 2000–3000 K; a main sequence star of spectral type M.
- red water — Texas fever
- reforward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- rewardful — offering reward; rewarding
- rewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
- riverward — Also, riverwards. toward a river.
- rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
- saddlebow — the arched front part of a saddle or saddletree.
- sawed-off — sawed off at the end, as a shotgun or broomstick.
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.