9-letter words containing w, l, a, d
- talk down — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- the weald — a region of SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and East and West Sussex between the North Downs and the South Downs: formerly forested
- the-weald — The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
- towelhead — an offensive term for someone who wears a turban
- twayblade — any of various orchids, especially of the genera Listera and Liparis, characterized by two nearly opposite broad leaves.
- tweeddale — Peebles.
- ultrawide — extremely wide
- unallowed — Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers, permitted by the selection rules: allowed transition.
- wagonload — the load carried by a wagon.
- wakefield — a city in West Yorkshire, in N England: battle 1460.
- waldenses — a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.
- waldflute — an organ flute stop
- waldgrave — (in the Holy Roman Empire) an officer having jurisdiction over a royal forest.
- walk-down — a store, living quarters, etc., located below the street level and approached by a flight of steps: It was a dimly lit walk-down optimistically called a garden apartment.
- wall-eyed — having eyes in which there is an abnormal amount of the white showing, because of divergent strabismus.
- wallboard — material manufactured in large sheets for use in making or covering walls, ceilings, etc., as a substitute for wooden boards or plaster.
- wallopped — Simple past tense and past participle of wallop.
- wallydrag — a feeble, dwarfed animal or person.
- war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
- warmblood — A horse of a breed that is a cross between an Arab or similar breed and another breed of the draft or pony type.
- wash load — a load of washing which is put in a washing machine
- wassailed — Simple past tense and past participle of wassail.
- wasteland — land that is uncultivated or barren.
- waywardly — In a wayward manner.
- weariedly — In an wearied manner; wearily.
- well-aged — having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man; an aged tree.
- well-made — skillfully built or constructed: a well-made sofa.
- well-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- well-read — having read extensively (sometimes followed by in): well-read in oceanography.
- welladays — alas
- wellheads — Plural form of wellhead.
- wergeland — Henrik Arnold. 1808–45, Norwegian poet and nationalist, remembered for his lyric and narrative verse
- wheatland — a region where wheat is grown
- wieldable — Capable of being wielded.
- wild bean — groundnut (def 1).
- wild boar — a wild Old World swine, Sus scrofa, from which most of the domestic hogs are believed to be derived.
- wild card — card game: substitute card
- wild date — a feather palm, Phoenix sylvestris, of India, having drooping, bluish-green or grayish leaves and small, orange-yellow fruit.
- wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- wild pear — a wild variety of pear, especially Pyrus pyraster or Pyrus caucasica
- wild-card — of, constituting, or including a wild card.
- wildcards — Plural form of wildcard.
- wildcraft — The harvesting of wild plants to sell or make into saleable products.
- wildlands — land that has not been cultivated, especially land set aside and protected as a wilderness.
- wind sail — a sail rigged over a hatchway, ventilator, or the like, to divert moving air downward into the vessel.
- windblast — a strong, sudden gust of wind.
- windfalls — Plural form of windfall.
- windgalls — Plural form of windgall.
- windsails — Plural form of windsail.
- windscale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.