9-letter words containing w, e, r, d
- deepwater — having or taking place in deep water
- delftware — glazed earthenware, usually blue and white, which originated in Delft
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- desk work — work done at a desk.
- dewatered — Simple past tense and past participle of dewater.
- dewaterer — a person who or a thing which dewaters
- deworming — Present participle of deworm.
- dire dawa — city in E Ethiopia: pop. 98,000
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- doorwomen — Plural form of doorwoman.
- dowerless — Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
- downrange — (of a missile, space launch, etc.) traveling in a specified direction away from the launch site and toward the target.
- downriver — Toward or situated at a point nearer the mouth of a river.
- downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
- draw fire — If you draw fire for something that you have done, you cause people to criticize you or attack you because of it.
- draw game — a game in which a player must keep drawing pieces from the boneyard until a playable one is drawn.
- draw gear — an apparatus for coupling railway cars
- draw rein — to tighten the reins
- draw-gate — the valve that controls a sluice
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- drawerful — an amount sufficient to fill a drawer: a drawerful of socks.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- drawshave — drawknife.
- drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- drywalled — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- drywaller — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfness — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
- earthward — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- earwigged — Simple past tense and past participle of earwig.
- earwormed — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- eastwards — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
- edgeworth — Maria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
- edward ii — 1284–1327, king of England 1307–27 (son of Edward I).
- edward iv — 1442–83, king of England 1461–70, 1471–1483: 1st king of the house of York.
- edward vi — 1537–53, king of England 1547–53 (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).
- edwardian — of or relating to the reign of Edward VII.