9-letter words containing w, e, d, r
- wergeland — Henrik Arnold. 1808–45, Norwegian poet and nationalist, remembered for his lyric and narrative verse
- westwards — Westward.
- wet dream — nocturnal emission.
- wheatbird — A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
- whickered — Simple past tense and past participle of whicker.
- whimpered — to cry with low, plaintive, broken sounds.
- whiskered — having, wearing, or covered with whiskers.
- whispered — rumored; reported: He is whispered to be planning to run for governor.
- whitbread — Fatima. born 1961, British javelin thrower: won gold at the World Championships (1987)
- whithered — Simple past tense and past participle of whither.
- widowered — a man who has lost his spouse by death and has not remarried.
- wild pear — a wild variety of pear, especially Pyrus pyraster or Pyrus caucasica
- wild rice — a tall aquatic grass, Zizania aquatica, of northeastern North America.
- wild rose — any native species of rose, usually having a single flower with the corolla consisting of one circle of five roundish, spreading petals.
- wildering — (botany) A plant growing in a state of nature, especially one that has run wild or escaped from cultivation.
- wildfires — Plural form of wildfire.
- wind rose — a map symbol showing, for a given locality or area, the frequency and strength of the wind from various directions.
- windborne — Carried by the wind.
- windbreak — a growth of trees, a structure of boards, or the like, serving as a shelter from the wind.
- windhover — the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus.
- windpower — Power harnessed or generated from the wind.
- windrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of windrow.
- windrower — a farm implement used to mow a field and arrange the mown crop in windrows.
- winterfed — Simple past tense and past participle of winterfeed.
- wire side — the wrong side of a sheet of paper; the side against the wire during manufacture.
- wirebound — Held together with a binding of wire.
- wiredrawn — drawn out long and thin like a wire.
- wiresonde — an instrument carried aloft by a captive balloon and sending temperature and humidity data over a wire cable.
- withe rod — either of two North American viburnums, Viburnum cassinoides or V. nudum, having tough, osierlike shoots.
- wonderboy — (informal) A male child prodigy, or (loosely) a talented male of any age.
- wonderers — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- wonderful — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wondering — expressing admiration or amazement; marveling.
- wonderkid — a young person whose excellence in his or her discipline is appropriate to someone older and more experienced
- wonderous — Wondrous.
- wonderpop — (language) (WPOP) An implementation of POP for the PDP-10 made by Robert Rae <[email protected]> in Edinburgh in 1976. WonderPop used "cages" for different data types and introduced processes, properties and some typed identifiers.
- wondreful — Obsolete form of wonderful.
- wood fern — any of several shield ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
- wood rose — the dried seed pod of the Ceylon morning glory.
- woodborer — a tool, operated by compressed air, for boring wood.
- woodhewer — woodcreeper.
- woodhorse — a frame for holding wood for sawing; a sawhorse
- woodreeve — a steward responsible for a wood
- woodridge — a city in NE Illinois.
- woodscrew — any of various screws that have a slotted head and a gimlet point that permit them to be driven into wood with a screwdriver.
- word game — any game or contest involving skill in using, forming, guessing, or changing words or expressions, such as anagrams or Scrabble.
- word time — the time required to transfer a machine word, especially one stored serially, from one memory unit to another.
- word-lore — a study of words and derivations.
- word-type — word class; part of speech
- wordbreak — the point at which a word is divided when it runs over from one line of print to the next