9-Letter Words Containing: W,E,S,A,N,D

• 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 of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers

• a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals)

• wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft

• (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position

• a crushing remark

• low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads