Words Containing: _,D,I,O,S,T,W

• To shift a transmission into a lower gear.

• To function at a lower rate.

• To make less controversial or risky.

• light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer

• a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one

• a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle

• shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

• a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction

• hold back; refuse to hand over or share

• retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments

• a fluent and prolific writer