9-letter words containing wa
- deathward — having an inclination or disposition towards death
- debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.
- deepwater — having or taking place in deep water
- delftware — glazed earthenware, usually blue and white, which originated in Delft
- dewatered — Simple past tense and past participle of dewater.
- dewaterer — a person who or a thing which dewaters
- dire dawa — city in E Ethiopia: pop. 98,000
- dirty war — a war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the regime's use of kidnapping, torture, and murder, with members of the civilian population often the victims.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
- downwards — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- draw away — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- drop away — become fewer
- drywalled — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- drywaller — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- duck-walk — to walk like a duck, as with legs apart and feet turned outward.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- 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.
- earthward — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- eastwards — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- edge wave — a wave aligned at right angles to the shoreline.
- edward ii — 1284–1327, king of England 1307–27 (son of Edward I).
- edward iv — 1442–83, king of England 1461–70, 1471–1483: 1st king of the house of York.
- edward vi — 1537–53, king of England 1547–53 (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).
- edwardian — of or relating to the reign of Edward VII.
- enswathed — Simple past tense and past participle of enswathe.
- entryways — Plural form of entryway.
- fade away — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- fadeaways — Plural form of fadeaway.
- fall away — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- feedwater — water to be supplied to a boiler from a tank or condenser for conversion into steam.
- fieldward — towards a field or fields
- file away — in folder
- fill away — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- fire away — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- fire wall — a fireproof wall to prevent the spread of fire, as from one room or compartment to the next
- firewagon — (US) A fire engine.
- firewalls — Plural form of firewall.
- firewater — alcoholic drink; liquor.
- fizzwater — effervescent water; soda water.
- flame war — Computer Slang. a series of angry, critical, or disparaging comments exchanged by two or more people in an ongoing online argument.
- flangeway — an opening, parallel to a rail, made through platforms, pavements, track structures, etc., to permit passage of wheel flanges.
- flatwares — utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- floodwall — A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood.
- fob watch — a pocket watch that is attached to a waistcoat by a chain or ribbon