9-letter words containing w, i, n, d, s
- weirdness — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
- whodunits — Plural form of whodunit.
- wiesbaden — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- wildlands — land that has not been cultivated, especially land set aside and protected as a wilderness.
- wildlings — Plural form of wildling.
- willesden — a former borough, now part of Brent, in SE England, near London.
- wind rose — a map symbol showing, for a given locality or area, the frequency and strength of the wind from various directions.
- wind sail — a sail rigged over a hatchway, ventilator, or the like, to divert moving air downward into the vessel.
- wind ship — a large sailing vessel.
- windblast — a strong, sudden gust of wind.
- windchest — a chamber containing the air supply for the reeds or pipes of an organ.
- windfalls — Plural form of windfall.
- windgalls — Plural form of windgall.
- windiness — The state of being windy (in all meanings).
- windmills — Plural form of windmill.
- windows 1 — (operating system) The first incarnation of Microsoft Windows, released in 1985. It took a total of 55 programmer-years to develop, and only allowed tiled windows.
- windows 2 — (operating system) The second version of Microsoft Windows, released in 1987. Windows 2 had considerably more features than Windows 1, such as overlapping windows and icons. When Windows/386 was released, Windows 2 was renamed Windows/286.
- windpipes — Plural form of windpipe.
- windsails — Plural form of windsail.
- windscale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- windshake — a crack between the annual rings in wood: caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
- windsocks — Plural form of windsock.
- windspeed — Alternative spelling of wind speed.
- windstorm — a storm with heavy wind but little or no precipitation.
- windswept — open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.
- windwards — in the direction of the wind
- wing skid — a skid attached to the wing tip of an airplane to prevent it from touching the ground.
- wingdings — Plural form of wingding.
- wiresonde — an instrument carried aloft by a captive balloon and sending temperature and humidity data over a wire cable.
- withstand — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.
- witnessed — to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception: to witness an accident.
- woodbines — Plural form of woodbine.
- woodiness — The state of being woody.
- woodwinds — a musical wind instrument of the group comprising the flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, and occasionally, the saxophones.
- wordiness — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
- wordings' — the act or manner of expressing in words; phrasing.
- wristband — the band of a sleeve, especially that of a shirt sleeve, that covers the wrist.
- x-windows — (spelling) A common misnomer for the X Window System.