9-letter words containing wo
- wobbliest — Superlative form of wobbly.
- wodehouse — Sir P(elham) G(renville) [pel-uh m] /ˈpɛl əm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1975, U.S. novelist and humorist, born in England.
- woebegone — beset with woe; affected by woe, especially in appearance.
- wofulness — the state or condition of being woeful
- wokingham — a unitary authority in SE England, in Berkshire. Pop: 151 200 (2003 est). Area: 179 sq km (69 sq miles)
- wolf call — a whistle, shout, or the like uttered by a male in admiration of a female's appearance.
- wolf down — eat hungrily or greedily
- wolf note — wolf (defs 8a, c).
- wolf pack — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- wolfberry — a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, of the honeysuckle family, having gray, hairy, egg-shaped leaves and pinkish, bell-shaped flowers, and bearing white berries.
- wolfeboro — a town in E New Hampshire, on Lake Winnipesaukee: summer resort.
- wolfhound — any of several large dogs used in hunting wolves.
- wolfishly — resembling a wolf, as in form or characteristics.
- wolframic — tungstic.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.
- wollaston — William Hyde, 1766–1828, English chemist and physicist.
- wolverene — Alternative spelling of wolverine.
- wolverine — Also called carcajou. a stocky, carnivorous North American mammal, Gulo luscus, of the weasel family, having blackish, shaggy hair with white markings.
- wolvishly — in the manner of a wolf
- woman-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy; based on a standard number of woman-hours in a day of work.
- womanhood — the state of being a woman; womanly character or qualities.
- womaniser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanizer.
- womanized — to make effeminate.
- womanizer — a philanderer.
- womanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of womanize.
- womankind — women, as distinguished from men; the female sex.
- womanless — Without women or a woman.
- womanlike — like a woman; womanly.
- womanness — like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
- womenfolk — women in general; all women.
- womenkind — womankind.
- womenless — Without women.
- wonderboy — (informal) A male child prodigy, or (loosely) a talented male of any age.
- wonderers — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- wonderful — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wondering — expressing admiration or amazement; marveling.
- wonderkid — a young person whose excellence in his or her discipline is appropriate to someone older and more experienced
- wonderous — Wondrous.
- wonderpop — (language) (WPOP) An implementation of POP for the PDP-10 made by Robert Rae <[email protected]> in Edinburgh in 1976. WonderPop used "cages" for different data types and introduced processes, properties and some typed identifiers.
- wondreful — Obsolete form of wonderful.
- wonkiness — The state or condition of being wonky.
- wood coal — brown coal; lignite.
- wood dale — a town in NE Illinois.
- wood duck — a North American duck, Aix sponsa, that nests in trees, the male of which has a long crest and black, chestnut, green, purple, and white plumage.
- wood fern — any of several shield ferns of the genus Dryopteris.
- wood frog — a typically light-brown frog, Rana sylvatica, inhabiting moist woodlands of eastern North America, having a dark, masklike marking on the head.
- wood ibis — any of several storks of the subfamily Mycteriinae, especially Mycteria americana, of the warm parts of America, and Ibis ibis, of Africa, having chiefly white plumage and a featherless head and resembling the true ibises in having curved bills: M. Americana is endangered.
- wood lily — a lily, Lilium philadelphicum, of eastern North America, having orange-red flowers.
- wood opal — a form of petrified wood impregnated by common opal