9-Letter Words Containing: D,E,K,O,W

• a temporary fortification built by troops in the field

• intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system

• initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state

• a very thorough search of a person or a place

• extortion of money (as by blackmail)

• Any structure at the head or diversion point of a waterway. It is smaller than a barrage and is used to divert water from a river into a canal or from a large canal into a smaller canal.

• the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

• a mental or physical breakdown

• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

• a cessation of normal operation

• an analysis into mutually exclusive categories

• (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance

• dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking

• a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat

• coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide

• All women around the world viewed as one entity.