9-letter words containing a, t, w, e
- wear thin — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- weathered — seasoned or otherwise affected by exposure to the weather.
- weatherly — (of a ship or boat) making very little leeway when close-hauled.
- webcaster — A person or organization that transmits a webcast over the Internet.
- webmaster — a person who designs or maintains a website.
- weedeater — A string trimmer.
- weft ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- wehrmacht — the German armed forces of the years prior to and during World War II.
- weightman — a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarite — a person who is on welfare
- well-cast — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- wenatchee — a city in central Washington.
- west bank — an area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel: occupied in 1967 and subsequently claimed by Israel; formerly held by Jordan.
- westabout — in, to, or towards the west
- westfalen — German name of Westphalia.
- westmeath — a county in Leinster in the N central Republic of Ireland. 681 sq. mi. (1765 sq. km). County seat: Mullingar.
- westwards — Westward.
- wet basis — A wet basis is a measure of the water in a solid, expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the wet solid.
- wet dream — nocturnal emission.
- wet shave — a shave in which lather and a razor are used, as opposed to an electric shaver
- wet steam — steam, usually low-pressure, that contains water droplets in suspension
- whaleboat — a long, narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas: formerly used in whaling, now mainly for sea rescue.
- whateffer — Eye dialect of whatever.
- wheatbird — A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
- wheatgerm — Wheatgerm is the middle part of a grain of wheat which is rich in vitamins and is often added to other food.
- wheatland — a region where wheat is grown
- wheatless — without wheat
- wheatmeal — a brown flour intermediate between white flour and wholemeal flour
- wheatworm — a small nematode, Tylenchus tritici, that stunts growth and disrupts seed production in wheat.
- whitbread — Fatima. born 1961, British javelin thrower: won gold at the World Championships (1987)
- white ant — termite
- white ash — any of various trees of the genus Fraxinus, of the olive family, especially F. excelsior, of Europe and Asia, or F. americana (white ash) of North America, having opposite, pinnate leaves and purplish flowers in small clusters.
- white hat — a virtuous hero, especially in a cowboy movie; good guy.
- white oak — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- white rat — an albino variety of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus, used in biological experiments.
- white sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean, in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. About 36,000 sq. mi. (93,240 sq. km).
- white wax — a yellowish-white, somewhat translucent, tasteless solid, prepared by bleaching beeswax, used chiefly in pharmacy.
- white-ant — to undermine or subvert from within.
- whiteacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from blackacre).
- whitebait — a young sprat or herring.
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whitebass — a freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the bass family Moronidae, native to North American lakes and rivers
- whitebeam — a European tree, Sorbus aria, of the rose family, having leathery leaves, showy, white flowers, and mealy, orange-red or scarlet fruit.
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.
- whitecoat — a baby seal, usually less than four weeks old and still having its initial white fur.
- whitedamp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.
- whiteface — a Hereford.
- whitehall — Also called Whitehall Palace. a former palace in central London, England, originally built in the reign of Henry III: execution of Charles I, 1649.
- whitehead — Alfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.