9-letter words containing w, i, l
- nidwalden — a demicanton of Unterwalden, in central Switzerland. 106 sq. mi. (275 sq. km). Capital: Stans.
- night owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- night-owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nightglow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.
- nimblewit — an alert, bright, and clever person
- olivewood — the wood of the olive tree
- orwellian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the totalitarian future described in his antiutopian novel 1984 (1949).
- outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
- palm wine — wine made from distilled palm-tree sap.
- paulownia — a Japanese tree, Paulownia tomentosa, of the bignonia family, having showy clusters of pale-violet or blue flowers blossoming in early spring.
- pilotweed — the compass plant, Silphium laciniatum.
- plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
- plainview — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- plan view — plan (def 4).
- play with — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plow into — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plow wind — a wind squall with a narrow, straight path of advance.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- poor-will — a goatsucker, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, of western North America.
- powellite — a rare mineral with formula CaMoO4, forming tetragonal crystals
- powellize — to preserve (wood) by boiling it in a sugar solution, as done first by W Powell of Liverpool; also, to preserve (wood) by treating it with arsenic, as marketed by N. S. W. Powell Wood Process Ltd.
- quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
- quillwort — any fernlike, aquatic marsh plant of the genus Isoëtes, characterized by clustered, quill-like leaves bearing sporangia in their bases.
- railwoman — a female worker on a railway
- rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
- rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
- reflowing — an occurrence of flowing again
- rewilding — to introduce (animals or plants) to their original habitat or to a habitat similar to their natural one: proposals to rewild elephants to the American plains.
- rice bowl — deep dish for rice
- riverwalk — a paved walkway along the side of a river
- salic law — a code of laws of the Salian Franks and other Germanic tribes, especially a provision in this code excluding females from the inheritance of land.
- schleswig — a seaport in N Germany, on the Baltic.
- scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- sei whale — a rorqual, Balaenoptera borealis, inhabiting all seas: now greatly reduced in number.
- self-will — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
- semivowel — Phonetics. a speech sound of vowel quality used as a consonant, as (w) in wet or (y) in yet.
- sewerlike — resembling a sewer
- shadowily — in a shadowy way or manner
- shoalwise — in shoals or large groups
- show bill — an advertising poster.
- show girl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- shrewlike — a woman of violent temper and speech; termagant.
- sidewalks — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewheel — either of a pair of paddle wheels on the sides of a vessel.
- sillyweed — marijuana.
- slantwise — aslant; obliquely.
- slideshow — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
- slim down — slender, as in girth or form; slight in build or structure.
- slinkweed — a plant believed to make a cow give birth prematurely