9-letter words containing w, o, l
- colicweed — any of several plants of the genera Dicentra or Corydalis, such as the squirrel corn and Dutchman's-breeches: family Fumariaceae
- colorways — Plural form of colorway.
- colourway — one of several different combinations of colours in which a given pattern is printed on fabrics, wallpapers, etc
- cool down — If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
- coralwort — any of various leafless orchids of the genus Corallorhiza
- corn laws — the laws introduced in Britain in 1804 to protect domestic farmers against foreign competition by the imposition of a heavy duty on foreign corn: repealed in 1846
- cotswolds — a range of low hills in SW England, mainly in Gloucestershire: formerly a centre of the wool industry
- cow pilot — sergeant major (sense 3)
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- crow-bill — a type of forceps used to extract bullets, etc, from wounds
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- crown law — criminal law
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- crownless — Without a crown.
- cup towel — a dishtowel.
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- data flow — (architecture) A data flow architecture or language performs a computation when all the operands are available. Data flow is one kind of data driven architecture, the other is demand driven. It is a technique for specifying fine-grain concurrency, usually in the form of two-dimensional graphs in which instructions that are available for concurrent execution are written alongside each other while those that must be executed in sequence are written one under the other. Data dependencies between instructions are indicated by directed arcs. Instructions do not reference memory since the data dependence arcs allow data to be transmitted directly from the producing instruction to the consuming one. Data flow schemes differ chiefly in the way that they handle re-entrant code. Static schemes disallow it, dynamic schemes use either "code copying" or "tagging" at every point of reentry. An example of a data flow architecture is MIT's VAL machine.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- devilwood — a variety of small broadleaf evergreen tree, Osmanthus americanus, native to the southeast US
- dial down — to reduce or become reduced
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- disallows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disallow.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- dishallow — to profane; desecrate.
- dishtowel — a towel for drying dishes.
- dog whelk — any of several carnivorous, marine gastropods of the family Nassidae.
- dowelling — Present participle of dowel.
- dowerless — Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- downcycle — a downward course in the business cycle.
- downfalls — Plural form of downfall.
- downfield — In or to a position nearer to the opponents' end of a field.
- downlight — a lamp, often a light bulb set in a metal cylinder, mounted on or recessed into the ceiling so that a beam of light is directed downward.
- downlinks — Plural form of downlink.
- downloads — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- downslide — a decline or downward trend, as of prices.
- downslope — A downward slope.
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- draw-loom — an early handloom used for producing figured fabrics.
- dust bowl — the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
- eagle owl — any of several large owls of the genus Bubo, having prominent tufts of feathers on each side of the head, especially B. bubo of Europe and Asia.
- eaglewood — agalloch.
- earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
- ecofallow — a method of farming that diminishes weeds and conserves water by rotating crops and reducing or eliminating tillage.
- elbowlike — Resembling an elbow.
- elbowroom — Sufficient space to have freedom of movement.