9-letter words containing w, i, s, d
- west side — the western part of Manhattan Island, New York City: conventionally W of Fifth Avenue.
- westfield — a city in S Massachusetts.
- whipsawed — subjected to a double loss, as when an investor has bought a stock at a high price soon before it declines and then, in order to make good the loss, sells it short before it advances.
- whiskered — having, wearing, or covered with whiskers.
- whispered — rumored; reported: He is whispered to be planning to run for governor.
- whiteside — The goldeneye.
- whodunits — Plural form of whodunit.
- wickedest — evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
- wide scsi — (hardware, standard) A variant on the SCSI-2 interface. It uses a 16-bit bus - double the width of the original SCSI-1 - and therefore cannot be connected to a SCSI-1 bus. It supports transfer rates up to 20 MB/s, like Fast SCSI. There is also a SCSI-2 definition of Wide-SCSI with a 32 bit data bus. This allows up to 40 megabytes per second but is very rarely used because it requires a large number of wires (118 wires on two connectors). Thus Wide SCSI usually means 16 bit-wide SCSI.
- widthways — Widthwise The direction of the width of an object or place.
- widthwise — in the direction of the width.
- wieldless — not capable of being handled; unwieldy
- wiesbaden — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wild rose — any native species of rose, usually having a single flower with the corolla consisting of one circle of five roundish, spreading petals.
- wild silk — tussah.
- wild west — the western frontier region of the U.S., before the establishment of stable government.
- wildcards — Plural form of wildcard.
- wildfires — Plural form of wildfire.
- wildlands — land that has not been cultivated, especially land set aside and protected as a wilderness.
- wildlings — Plural form of wildling.
- wildwoods — Plural form of wildwood.
- 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.
- wire side — the wrong side of a sheet of paper; the side against the wire during manufacture.
- wiresonde — an instrument carried aloft by a captive balloon and sending temperature and humidity data over a wire cable.
- withdraws — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of withdraw.
- withholds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of withhold.
- withstand — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.