9-letter words containing ind
- windblown — blown by the wind: windblown hair.
- windborne — Carried by the wind.
- windbound — (of a sailing ship, sailboat, or the like) kept from sailing by a wind from the wrong direction or one of too high velocity.
- windbreak — a growth of trees, a structure of boards, or the like, serving as a shelter from the wind.
- windburnt — Alternative form of windburned.
- windchest — a chamber containing the air supply for the reeds or pipes of an organ.
- windchill — A quantity expressing the effective lowering of the air temperature caused by the wind, especially as affecting the rate of heat loss from an object or human body or as perceived by an exposed person.
- windchime — A chime constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells, etc., often hung outside a building or residence as a visual and aural ornament to be played by the wind.
- windfalls — Plural form of windfall.
- windgalls — Plural form of windgall.
- windhover — the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus.
- windiness — The state of being windy (in all meanings).
- windingly — With a winding motion or pattern.
- windmills — Plural form of windmill.
- windowbox — Alternative form of window box.
- windowing — an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
- windows 1 — (operating system) The first incarnation of Microsoft Windows, released in 1985. It took a total of 55 programmer-years to develop, and only allowed tiled windows.
- windows 2 — (operating system) The second version of Microsoft Windows, released in 1987. Windows 2 had considerably more features than Windows 1, such as overlapping windows and icons. When Windows/386 was released, Windows 2 was renamed Windows/286.
- windpipes — Plural form of windpipe.
- windpower — Power harnessed or generated from the wind.
- windproof — resisting wind, as fabric or a jacket or coat.
- windrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of windrow.
- windrower — a farm implement used to mow a field and arrange the mown crop in windrows.
- windsails — Plural form of windsail.
- windscale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- windshake — a crack between the annual rings in wood: caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
- windsocks — Plural form of windsock.
- windspeed — Alternative spelling of wind speed.
- windstorm — a storm with heavy wind but little or no precipitation.
- windswept — open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.
- windthrow — the uprooting of trees by wind
- windtight — so tight as to prevent passage of wind or air.
- windwards — in the direction of the wind
- withywind — traveler's-joy.
- wittekind — died a.d. 807? Westphalian chief: leader of the Saxons against Charlemagne.
- womankind — women, as distinguished from men; the female sex.
- womenkind — womankind.
- woodwinds — a musical wind instrument of the group comprising the flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, and occasionally, the saxophones.
- x-windows — (spelling) A common misnomer for the X Window System.
- zamindari — (in British India) the system of landholding and tax collection by zamindars.
- zamindars — Plural form of zamindar.
- zemindary — zamindari.