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9-letter words containing w, o, d, l, a

  • 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.
  • 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
  • leadworks — a factory that makes things out of lead
  • leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
  • load down — If you load someone down with things, especially heavy things, you give them a large number of them or put a large number of them on them.
  • loan word — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
  • loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
  • low board — a diving board 1 meter (3.2 feet) above the water.
  • low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
  • lowballed — Simple past tense and past participle of lowball.
  • lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
  • lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
  • macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
  • maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
  • mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.
  • mold-warp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • nail down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • nail-down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • nanoworld — The sphere of influence of nanotechnology.
  • old squaw — a sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, of arctic and subarctic regions.
  • old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
  • old woman — elderly lady
  • oldsquaws — Plural form of oldsquaw.
  • outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
  • play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
  • saddlebow — the arched front part of a saddle or saddletree.
  • scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
  • shadowily — in a shadowy way or manner
  • slag down — to give a verbal lashing to
  • slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • snow-clad — covered with snow.
  • snowblade — one of a pair of short skis used without poles
  • sod's law — (humour)   Murphy's Law.
  • sound law — phonetic law.
  • swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
  • swordtail — any of several small, brightly colored, viviparous, freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, native to Central America, having the lower part of the caudal fin elongated into a swordlike structure: often kept in aquariums.
  • talk down — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • towelhead — an offensive term for someone who wears a turban
  • unallowed — Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers, permitted by the selection rules: allowed transition.
  • wagonload — the load carried by a wagon.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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