9-letter words containing w, o, l
- blowiness — the quality or extent of being blowy
- blowtorch — A blowtorch is the same as a blowlamp.
- boardwalk — A boardwalk is a path made of wooden boards, especially one along a beach.
- bob-wheel — a metrical device found in Middle English and Middle Scots poetry, where a very short line (the 'bob') is followed by longer lines with an internal rhyme scheme (the 'wheel')
- body blow — A body blow is something that causes great disappointment and difficulty to someone who is trying to achieve something.
- boil away — When you boil away a liquid, or when it boils away, it is boiled until all of it changes into steam or vapour.
- boil down — When you boil down a liquid or food, or when it boils down, it is boiled until there is less of it because some of the water in it has changed into steam or vapour.
- bollywood — the Indian film industry
- bolt down — fasten, secure sth
- bow bells — the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London: it is said that a true Cockney is born within earshot of these bells
- bowelless — ruthless, merciless
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- bowl over — To bowl someone over means to push into them and make them fall to the ground.
- bowlegged — having bowlegs
- boxwallah — an itinerant pedlar or salesman in India
- browallia — any plant of the Browallia genus of South American flowering plants
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- brown owl — nocturnal bird of prey
- browsable — able to be browsed
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- call down — to request or invoke
- call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- callowest — Superlative form of callow.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- canon law — Canon law is the law of the Christian church. It has authority only for that church and its members.
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- chow hall — canteen, refectory
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- claw foot — a foot with claws.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- clockwise — When something is moving clockwise, it is moving in a circle in the same direction as the hands on a clock.
- clockwork — A clockwork toy or device has machinery inside it which makes it move or operate when it is wound up with a key.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- clownlike — Resembling a clown or some aspect of clowns.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- cogwheels — Plural form of cogwheel.
- cold brew — the process of steeping coffee grounds or tea leaves in room-temperature or cold water for many hours, producing a concentrate to which more water may be added.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- cold work — the craft of shaping metal without heat
- cold-brew — (of a drink such as tea or coffee) prepared by steeping in cold water
- cold-draw — to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) without preheating the metal.
- cold-weld — to join (two metal surfaces) without heat by forcing them together so that the oxide films are broken and adhesion occurs
- cold-work — to work (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- coleslaws — Plural form of coleslaw.