9-letter words containing w
- brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- brand new — entirely new.
- brand-new — A brand-new object is completely new.
- brassware — articles made of brass, considered as a group
- bratwurst — a type of small pork sausage
- breakaway — A breakaway group is a group of people who have separated from a larger group, for example because of a disagreement.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakwall — breakwater
- breezeway — a roofed passageway connecting two buildings, sometimes with the sides enclosed
- brentwood — a residential town in SE England, in SW Essex near London. Pop: 47 593 (2001)
- brewhouse — a brewery
- briarwood — any of several woods used to make tobacco pipes
- brickwork — You can refer to the bricks in the walls of a building as the brickwork.
- bridewell — a house of correction; jail, esp for minor offences
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- brierwood — brierroot
- bringdown — a disappointment
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- brookweed — either of two white-flowered primulaceous plants, Samolus valerandi of Europe or S. floribundus of North America, growing in moist places
- browallia — any plant of the Browallia genus of South American flowering plants
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- brown bag — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- brown cow — a drink made by mixing cola and milk
- brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control
- brown out — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
- brown owl — nocturnal bird of prey
- brown rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
- brown rot — a disease of apples, peaches, etc, caused by fungi of the genus Sclerotinia and characterized by yellowish-brown masses of spores on the plant surface
- brown-bag — If you brown-bag your lunch or you brown-bag it, you bring your lunch in a bag to work or school.
- brownwood — a city in central Texas.
- browridge — the ridge of bone over the eye sockets
- browsable — able to be browsed
- brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
- brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
- brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
- buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
- bugleweed — any aromatic plant of the genus Lycopus, having small whitish or pale blue flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- burn down — If a building burns down or if someone burns it down, it is completely destroyed by fire.
- burrawang — any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- bushwhack — to ambush