9-letter words containing w, l, g
- unwilling — not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
- upwelling — an act or instance of welling up: an upwelling of public support; an upwelling of emotion in his voice.
- waggishly — In a waggish manner.
- waghalter — a person likely to be hanged
- wagon-lit — (in continental European usage) a railroad sleeping car.
- wagonload — the load carried by a wagon.
- wailingly — in a wailing manner
- waitingly — in a waiting manner
- waldgrave — (in the Holy Roman Empire) an officer having jurisdiction over a royal forest.
- wall game — a type of football played at Eton against a wall
- wall plug — an electrical outlet permanently mounted on a wall.
- wall-hung — designed to be hung from or attached to a wall: a wall-hung medicine cabinet for the bathroom.
- wallering — (slang, US, pejorative) present participle of waller.
- walloping — a vigorous blow.
- wallowing — to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.
- wallydrag — a feeble, dwarfed animal or person.
- walpurgis — Saint, a.d. c710–780, English missionary and abbess in Germany: feast day May 1.
- warningly — the act or utterance of one who warns or the existence, appearance, sound, etc., of a thing that warns.
- wastingly — In a way that causes wastage; wastefully.
- wax light — a candle made of wax.
- waylaying — Present participle of waylay.
- weaklings — Plural form of weakling.
- weanlings — Plural form of weanling.
- wearingly — gradually impairing or wasting: Reading small print can be wearing on the eyes.
- weaseling — (US) present participle of weasel.
- wedgelike — Shaped like a wedge.
- weepingly — In a weeping manner.
- weighable — Heavy enough to be weighed.
- weightily — In a weighty manner; ponderously; forcibly.
- welcoming — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- well hung — simple past tense and past participle of hang.
- well-aged — having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man; an aged tree.
- well-hung — simple past tense and past participle of hang.
- well-nigh — very nearly; almost: It's well-nigh bedtime.
- well-sung — a simple past tense and past participle of sing.
- wellbeing — a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity; welfare: to influence the well-being of the nation and its people.
- welldoing — good conduct or action.
- weltering — to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
- wergeland — Henrik Arnold. 1808–45, Norwegian poet and nationalist, remembered for his lyric and narrative verse
- wheedling — to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts: We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent.
- wheel bug — an assassin bug, Arilus cristatus, that has a toothed, semicircular crest on the pronotum and preys on other insects.
- wheelings — Plural form of wheeling.
- whiffling — to blow in light or shifting gusts or puffs, as the wind; veer or toss about irregularly.
- whiningly — With a whining sound.
- whirligig — something that whirls or revolves.
- whistling — an instrument for producing whistling sounds by means of the breath, steam, etc., as a small wooden or tin tube, a pipe, or a similar device with an air chamber containing a small ball that oscillates when air is forced through an opening, producing a high-pitched, warbling tone.
- whittling — British Dialect. a knife, especially a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife.
- whole hog — the whole or total extent (esp in the phrase go the whole hog)
- whole-hog — complete and thorough; wholehearted.
- wildering — (botany) A plant growing in a state of nature, especially one that has run wild or escaped from cultivation.