9-letter words containing w, l, a, d
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- draw-loom — an early handloom used for producing figured fabrics.
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawerful — an amount sufficient to fill a drawer: a drawerful of socks.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- 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.
- duck-walk — to walk like a duck, as with legs apart and feet turned outward.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- eaglewood — agalloch.
- earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
- fall down — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fall wind — a strong, cold, downhill wind.
- fieldward — towards a field or fields
- flag down — a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at one edge to a staff or cord, and used as the symbol of a nation, state, or organization, as a means of signaling, etc.; ensign; standard; banner; pennant.
- flatwoods — a woodland in a low-lying region having little drainage.
- floodwall — A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood.
- forwardly — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- goalwards — toward or in the direction of the opposing team's goal
- god-awful — extremely dreadful or shocking: What a God-awful thing to say!
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- grunewald — Mathias [mah-tee-ahs] /mɑˈti ɑs/ (Show IPA), (Mathias Neithardt-Gothardt) c1470–1528, German painter and architect.
- hand-walk — to carry (a memorandum, check, or other document) from one person or office to another so as to assure prompt delivery.
- handblown — (of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld blowpipe: handblown crystal.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- handwheel — a wheel, as a valve wheel, turned by hand.
- hazelwood — a town in E Missouri.
- head wall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- hellwards — towards hell
- hold sway — have influence
- hywel dda — known as Hywel the Good. died 950 ad, Welsh prince. He united S and N Wales and codified Welsh law
- idle away — time, hours: pass lazily
- jaywalked — Simple past tense and past participle of jaywalk.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- lamb down — to persuade (someone) to spend all his money
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- land wind — land breeze.
- land with — to give to, so as to put in difficulties; cause to be burdened with
- land-wind — a wind that comes from the land
- landowner — an owner or proprietor of land.
- landowska — Wanda [won-duh;; Polish vahn-dah] /ˈwɒn də;; Polish ˈvɑn dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1959, Polish harpsichordist, in the U.S. after 1940.
- landwards — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
- langwidge — Eye dialect of language.
- lansdowne — Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice [pet-ee-fits-mawr-is,, -mor-] /ˈpɛt i fɪtsˈmɔr ɪs,, -ˈmɒr-/ (Show IPA), 5th Marquis of, 1845–1927, British statesman: viceroy of India 1888–94, foreign secretary 1900–05.
- last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
- late wood — summerwood.
- law lords — (in Britain) members of the House of Lords who sit as the highest court of appeal, although in theory the full House of Lords has this role