9-letter words containing w, s, d
- dow jones — financial news firm
- dowdiness — The characteristic of being dowdy; frumpiness; plainness.
- dowerless — Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- down east — New England.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downfalls — Plural form of downfall.
- downiness — The quality of being downy.
- 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.
- downpipes — Plural form of downpipe.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- 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.
- downshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- downsides — Plural form of downside.
- downsized — Simple past tense and past participle of downsize.
- downsizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downsize.
- downslide — a decline or downward trend, as of prices.
- downslope — A downward slope.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- downstage — at or toward the front of the stage.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- downstate — the southern part of a U.S. state.
- downswept — curved downwards
- downswing — a downward swing, as of a golf club in driving a ball.
- downticks — Plural form of downtick.
- downtowns — Plural form of downtown.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- downwards — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- drag show — a performance by drag artists
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drawshave — drawknife.
- drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- drawworks — A drawworks is a drum for reeling the drill string in and out.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- dropworts — Plural form of dropwort.
- drownings — Plural form of drowning.
- dumb show — a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- dust bowl — the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
- dust down — wipe clean
- dust well — a hollow in the surface of a glacier, formed by the melting action of dust or soil deposits.
- dustywing — any of the rare, minute neuropterous insects of the family Coniopterygidae, characterized by a white, powdery body and wing cover, large eyes, long and slender antennae, and chewing mouthparts.
- dwarfness — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- dwellings — a building or place of shelter to live in; place of residence; abode; home.