10-letter words containing a, l, e, w, i
- west allis — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wheatfield — A wheat field; a field of wheat; a plot of land planted with wheat.
- wheelchair — a chair mounted on wheels for use by persons who cannot walk.
- while away — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
- whiplashes — Plural form of whiplash.
- whiptailed — having a long slender tail
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- white flag — an all-white banner or piece of cloth, used as a symbol of surrender or truce.
- white lady — a cocktail consisting of gin, Cointreau, and lemon juice
- white lead — a white, heavy powder, basic lead carbonate, 2PbCO 3 ⋅Pb(OH) 2 , used as a pigment, in putty, and in medicinal ointments for burns.
- white lias — a type of rock composed of pale-coloured limestones and marls
- white sale — a sale of sheets, pillowcases, and other white goods.
- whitewalls — Plural form of whitewall.
- wholegrain — A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.
- wide-angle — of or relating to a lens having a relatively wide angle of view, generally 45° or more, and a focal length of less than 50 mm.
- wienerwald — a forested and wooded hill range in NE Lower Austria, W of Vienna: resorts.
- wiesenthal — Simon, 1908–2005, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals.
- wikileaked — pertaining to or noting private or classified information or documents that are anonymously disclosed, especially when published on a website: WikiLeaked diplomatic cables.
- wild beast — savage animal
- wild senna — a subshrubby senna, Cassia marilandica, of the eastern U.S., having yellow flowers.
- wild water — turbulent water in a river, esp as an area for navigating in a canoe as a sport
- wildcarded — (computing) Replaced or supplemented with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
- wildcatted — Simple past tense and past participle of wildcat.
- wildcatter — an oil prospector.
- wilhelmina — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
- willamette — a river flowing N through NW Oregon into the Columbia River at Portland. About 290 miles (465 km) long.
- willemstad — the main island of the Netherlands Antilles, off the NW coast of Venezuela. 173 sq. mi. (448 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
- willowware — china using the willow pattern.
- wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- windfallen — having fallen because of wind
- windlassed — Simple past tense and past participle of windlass.
- windlasses — (nautical) Plural form of windlass.
- wine glass — stemmed glass drinking vessel
- winlestrae — windlestraw.
- winstanley — Gerrard. ?1609–60, English radical; leader of the Diggers (1649–50) and author of the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652)
- wire glass — a pane or sheet of glass having a network of wire embedded within it as a reinforcement.
- wirewalker — an acrobat who performs on a wire tightrope.
- wizardlike — Resembling a wizard or some aspect of one.
- wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
- wraithlike — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
- writ large — If you say that something is writ large, you mean that it is very obvious.
- yellowtail — a game fish, Seriola lalandei, of California.