9-letter words starting with w
- walkovers — Plural form of walkover.
- wall bars — a series of horizontal bars attached to a wall and used in gymnastics
- wall fern — the polypody, especially Polypodium vulgare or P. virginianum.
- wall game — a type of football played at Eton against a wall
- wall knot — a knot forming a knob at the end of a rope, made by unwinding the strands and weaving them together
- wall lamp — wall-mounted light
- wall pass — a movement in which one player passes the ball to another and sprints forward to receive the quickly played return
- wall plug — an electrical outlet permanently mounted on a wall.
- wall rock — the rock forming the walls of a vein.
- wall tent — a tent having four perpendicular sides, usually larger and with more headroom than most pyramid-shaped tents.
- wall-eyed — having eyes in which there is an abnormal amount of the white showing, because of divergent strabismus.
- wall-hung — designed to be hung from or attached to a wall: a wall-hung medicine cabinet for the bathroom.
- wall-like — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- wallabies — Plural form of wallaby.
- wallachia — a former principality in SE Europe: united with Moldavia (Moldova) to form Romania in 1861. 29,569 sq. mi. (76,585 sq. km). Capital: Bucharest.
- wallaroos — Plural form of wallaroo.
- wallboard — material manufactured in large sheets for use in making or covering walls, ceilings, etc., as a substitute for wooden boards or plaster.
- wallchart — (education) A large informational chart, typically hung on the wall of a classroom.
- wallensis — Sir William, Wallace, Sir William.
- wallering — (slang, US, pejorative) present participle of waller.
- wallopers — Plural form of walloper.
- walloping — a vigorous blow.
- wallopped — Simple past tense and past participle of wallop.
- wallowing — to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.
- wallpaper — paper, usually with printed decorative patterns in color, for pasting on and covering the walls or ceilings of rooms, hallways, etc.
- wallyball — a game similar to volleyball played in a walled court so that the ball may be bounced against the walls.
- wallydrag — a feeble, dwarfed animal or person.
- walpurgis — Saint, a.d. c710–780, English missionary and abbess in Germany: feast day May 1.
- wampanoag — a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement.
- wanamaker — John, 1838–1922, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- wanchancy — unlucky
- wanderers — Mechanics. the drift of a gyroscope or a similar device.
- wandering — moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
- wandorobo — Dorobo.
- wannabees — Plural form of wannabee.
- want knap — a mole hill
- want list — a list of desired items, as stamps, coins, or books, circulated among dealers by a hobbyist, museum, or collector seeking to locate and purchase them.
- wantoning — Present participle of wanton.
- wantonize — to make (something) wanton
- wap forum — (body) The official body developing Wireless Application Protocol.
- wapentake — (formerly in N England and the Midlands) a subdivision of a shire or county corresponding to a hundred.
- wapperjaw — Informal. a projecting underjaw.
- war bride — a woman who marries a serviceman about to go overseas in wartime.
- war chest — money set aside or scheduled for a particular purpose or activity, as for a political campaign or organizational drive.
- war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
- war crime — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- war dance — a dance preliminary to going into battle or in celebration of a victory, as formerly among American Indians.
- war fever — widespread enthusiasm for going to war
- war grave — a grave of a person killed in battle; a ship that was sunk in battle with troops aboard
- war horse — a horse used in war; charger.