10-letter words containing a, d, w, r
- wallboards — Plural form of wallboard.
- wanderings — Plural form of wandering.
- wanderjahr — a year or period of travel, especially following one's schooling and before practicing a profession.
- wanderlust — a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.
- wandsworth — a borough of Greater London, England.
- war clouds — sign of trouble ahead
- war record — the recorded achievements of a soldier, sailor, airman etc in a war
- ward eight — a mixed drink containing whiskey, lemon juice, grenadine, and often soda water, served in a tall glass with crushed ice and sometimes garnished with an orange slice and a cherry.
- ward round — a regular visit to patients in hospital by medical staff for the purpose of making decisions concerning patient care
- wardenship — The state of being a warden.
- wardrobing — a stock of clothes or costumes, as of a person or of a theatrical company.
- warehoused — Simple past tense and past participle of warehouse.
- warlording — (Internet) The act of denouncing, dissecting or mocking bloated signature blocks in Usenet postings.
- warlordism — a military leader, especially of a warlike nation.
- warp speed — an extremely rapid rate of speed: rumors traveling at warp speed.
- warpedness — The state, quality or condition of being warped.
- warrandice — (legal) A form of warranty, in Scots law, in which a person conveying property was held liable for any outstanding claims on the property.
- warrantied — an act or an instance of warranting; assurance; authorization; warrant.
- washboards — Plural form of washboard.
- watchguard — a security chain or cord for a watch
- watchwords — Plural form of watchword.
- water bird — an aquatic bird; a swimming or wading bird.
- water down — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- water mold — any of various aquatic fungi of the phylum Oomycota, free-living or parasitic in fish and other aquatic organisms.
- water-laid — noting a rope laid left-handed from three or four plain-laid ropes, in the making of which water was used to wet the fibers instead of the more customary oil or tallow.
- waterboard — Subject (someone) to the process of waterboarding.
- waterdrive — (of an oil or gas reservoir) using water to force out the oil or gas
- waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
- watersheds — Plural form of watershed.
- watersider — a wharf labourer
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- waterweeds — Plural form of waterweed.
- wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
- weaverbird — any of numerous African and Asian finchlike birds of the family Ploceidae, noted for their elaborately woven nests and colonial habits.
- weighboard — a thin layer (e.g. shale or clay) between bands of thicker strata (e.g. limestone or sandstone)
- well-aired — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- well-armed — bearing firearms; having weapons: a heavily armed patrol.
- well-drawn — past participle of draw.
- westwardly — having a westward direction or situation: the westwardly migration of the 1850s.
- wharf shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- whitebeard — an old man, especially one with a white or gray beard.
- whiteboard — a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard.
- whitebread — any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour.
- whitecedar — (US) alternative spelling of white cedar.
- widespread — spread over or open, or occupying a wide space.
- widowmaker — Alternative form of widow-maker.
- wienerwald — a forested and wooded hill range in NE Lower Austria, W of Vienna: resorts.
- wild track — a soundtrack recorded other than with a synchronized picture, usually carrying sound effects, random dialogue, etc
- wild water — turbulent water in a river, esp as an area for navigating in a canoe as a sport