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9-letter words containing w, h

  • death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
  • deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
  • deathward — having an inclination or disposition towards death
  • dipswitch — (electronics, computing) A miniature switch designed to be attached to a circuit board to customize the behavior of the circuit.
  • dishallow — to profane; desecrate.
  • dishtowel — a towel for drying dishes.
  • dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • dog whelk — any of several carnivorous, marine gastropods of the family Nassidae.
  • doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
  • dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
  • down home — of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.: down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.
  • down with — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
  • down-home — of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.: down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.
  • downlight — a lamp, often a light bulb set in a metal cylinder, mounted on or recessed into the ceiling so that a beam of light is directed downward.
  • downright — thorough; absolute; out-and-out: a downright falsehood.
  • downshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • downthrow — a throwing down or being thrown down; overthrow.
  • downweigh — (transitive) To weigh or press down; depress; cause to sink or prevent from rising.
  • drag show — a performance by drag artists
  • draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
  • drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
  • 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.
  • duck hawk — a peregrine falcon of the American subspecies Falco peregrinus anatum, noted for its especially swift flight.
  • duckwheat — India wheat.
  • dumb show — a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
  • eachwhere — all over or in every place
  • earthward — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
  • earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
  • earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
  • echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
  • edgeworthMaria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
  • egg whisk — An egg whisk is a piece of kitchen equipment used for mixing the different parts of an egg together.
  • egg white — the white of an egg, especially a hen's egg, used in cooking; albumen.
  • ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
  • elsewhere — In, at, or to some other place or other places.
  • enswathed — Simple past tense and past participle of enswathe.
  • enwreathe — Surround or envelop (something).
  • enwrought — (archaic) Made from (a material).
  • erstwhile — Former.
  • eschewing — Present participle of eschew.
  • ethelwulf — died 858 ad, king of Wessex (839–858)
  • everwhere — (US, dialectal) everywhere.
  • everywhen — always, at all times
  • eyeshadow — A colored cosmetic, typically in powder form, applied to the eyelids or to the skin around the eyes to accentuate them.
  • fin whale — finback.
  • fish crow — a crow, Corvus ossifragus, of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, that feeds on fish, mollusks, etc.
  • fish hawk — osprey (def 1).
  • fishbowls — Plural form of fishbowl.
  • fishwives — Plural form of fishwife.
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