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9-letter words that end in wn

  • finedrawn — Drawn out with too much subtlety; overnice.
  • flag down — a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at one edge to a staff or cord, and used as the symbol of a nation, state, or organization, as a means of signaling, etc.; ensign; standard; banner; pennant.
  • fold-down — designed to be folded out for use and collapsed when not in use: a fold-down tray on the back of an airplane seat; a fold-down trailer for camping.
  • foreknown — Past participle of foreknow.
  • frogspawn — The eggs of a frog, which are surrounded by transparent jelly.
  • gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
  • goffstown — a town in S New Hampshire.
  • goosedown — Down from a goose.
  • greenlawn — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
  • hand down — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand-sewn — sewn by hand.
  • handblown — (of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld blowpipe: handblown crystal.
  • hansetown — Hansa (def 3).
  • hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
  • hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
  • hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
  • hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • home town — town or city where one grew up
  • homegrown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
  • hose down — spray sth clean
  • howl down — to utter a loud, prolonged, mournful cry, as that of a dog or wolf.
  • hull down — the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
  • hunt down — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
  • intertown — Between towns.
  • jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
  • johnstown — a city in SW Pennsylvania: disastrous flood 1889.
  • jonestown — a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.
  • keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • kick down — vehicle: lower gear
  • kingstown — an island state in the S Windward Islands, in the SE West Indies comprising St. Vincent island and the N Grenadines: gained independence 1979. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km). Capital: Kingstown.
  • knockdown — capable of knocking something down; overwhelming; irresistible: a knockdown blow.
  • lamb down — to persuade (someone) to spend all his money
  • levittown — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • live down — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
  • load down — If you load someone down with things, especially heavy things, you give them a large number of them or put a large number of them on them.
  • lock down — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • look down — the appearance of paper when inspected under reflected light.
  • look-down — the appearance of paper when inspected under reflected light.
  • mark down — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
  • mark-down — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
  • melt down — substance
  • mindblown — Having a blown mind.
  • mossgrown — On which moss is growing.
  • move down — If someone or something moves down, they go to a lower level, grade, or class.
  • nail down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • nail-down — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
  • nightgown — a loose gown, worn in bed by women or children.
  • note down — write for reference
  • nut-brown — Nut-brown is used to describe things that are dark reddish brown in colour.
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