9-letter words containing w, e, k, a
- keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kittiwake — either of two small, pearl-gray gulls of the genus Rissa, the black-legged R. tridactyla of the North Atlantic and the red-legged and red-billed R. brevirostris, of the Bering Sea, both nesting on narrow cliff ledges and having a rudimentary hind toe.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- kwajalein — an atoll in the Marshall Islands, in E Micronesia. About 78 miles (126 km) long.
- late-wake — a lyke-wake
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- lawmakers — Plural form of lawmaker.
- leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
- lyke-wake — a watch held over a dead person, often with festivities
- make away — to depart in haste
- make news — to do something that is apt to be reported as news
- make with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make-work — work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.
- meatworks — (Australia, New Zealand) A slaughterhouse or meat processing plant.
- metalwork — objects made of metal.
- milwaukee — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- milwaukie — a town in NW Oregon.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- newmarket — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto.
- newsbreak — a newsworthy event or incident.
- newsmaker — a person, thing, or event that is newsworthy: a weekly magazine devoted to stories on newsmakers.
- newsqueak — A concurrent applicative language with synchronous channels.
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- paperwork — written or clerical work, as records or reports, forming a necessary but often a routine and secondary part of some work or job.
- pawtucket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- perp walk — an arranged public appearance of a recently arrested criminal for the benefit of the media
- polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
- race-walk — to participate in race walking.
- riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- sakajawea — ("Bird Woman") 1787?–1812? Shoshone guide and interpreter: accompanied Lewis and Clark expedition 1804–05.
- sakakawea — Lake, a reservoir in W central North Dakota, on the Missouri River, formed by the Garrison Dam (completed 1956). 178 miles (286 km) long.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- sea wrack — seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.
- shakedown — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- sheepwalk — a tract of land on which sheep are pastured.
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
- sidewalks — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- skew arch — an arch, as at the entrance to a tunnel, having sides, or jambs, that are not at right angles with the face.
- sleepwalk — to engage in sleepwalking.
- snakeweed — bistort (def 1).
- snakewise — in a snake-like manner
- snakewood — the heavy, dark-red wood of a South American tree, Piratinera guianensis, used for decorative veneers, musical instrument bows, etc.
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- snowmaker — a machine that makes artificial snow for ski slopes.
- spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- speedwalk — an endless conveyor belt, moving walk, or the like used to transport standing persons from place to place.
- suka wena — an expression of dismissal or rejection; go away
- swan lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.