10-letter words containing a, w, e
- well-drawn — past participle of draw.
- well-meant — A well-meant decision, action, or comment is intended to be helpful or kind but is unsuccessful or causes problems.
- well-named — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- well-taken — soundly logical; worthy of consideration: Her advice is well-taken.
- well-woman — a woman who, although not ill, attends a health-service clinic for preventive monitoring, health education, and advice
- welsh harp — a type of harp in which the strings are arranged in three rows, used esp for the accompaniment of singing, improvisation on folk tunes, etc
- welshwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.
- wenceslaus — 1361–1419, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1378–1400; as Wenceslaus IV, king of Bohemia 1378–1419.
- wentletrap — any of several marine gastropods of the family Epitonii (Scalariidae), having a whitish, spiraled shell.
- werejackal — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a jackal.
- werejaguar — (fiction, mythology) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a jaguar.
- west allis — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- west coast — the western coast of the U.S., bordering the Pacific Ocean and comprising the coastal areas of California, Oregon, and Washington.
- west fargo — a city in SE North Dakota: suburb of Fargo.
- west haven — a town in S Connecticut, near New Haven.
- west irian — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- west saxon — the Old English dialect of the West Saxon kingdom, dominant after a.d. c850 and the medium of nearly all the literary remains of Old English.
- westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- westwardly — having a westward direction or situation: the westwardly migration of the 1850s.
- whaikorero — the art of formal speech-making
- whale calf — the young of a whale
- whalebacks — Plural form of whaleback.
- whaleboats — Plural form of whaleboat.
- whalebones — Plural form of whalebone.
- wharf shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- wharfinger — a person who owns or has charge of a wharf.
- what goes? — what's happening?
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- what then? — what would happen in that case?
- whatsaname — Any object whose name one does not know or cannot remember.
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).
- wheat beer — any of various beers brewed using a mixture of wheat malt and barley malt
- wheat cake — a pancake made of wheat flour.
- wheat germ — the embryo or nucleus of the wheat kernel, used in or on foods as a concentrated source of vitamins.
- wheat pool — (in Western Canada) a cereal farmers' cooperative
- wheat rust — any of several diseases of wheat caused by rust fungi of the genus Puccinia.
- wheatfield — A wheat field; a field of wheat; a plot of land planted with wheat.
- wheatgrass — any of several wheatlike grasses of the genus Agropyron, grown for forage in the western U.S.
- wheatstone — Sir Charles, 1802–75, English physicist and inventor.
- wheatworms — Plural form of wheatworm.
- wheel arch — The wheel arch is the semicircular part positioned above the wheel of a vehicle.
- wheel back — a chair back having the form of a circle or oval with spindles or bars meeting at the center.
- wheelbases — Plural form of wheelbase.
- wheelchair — a chair mounted on wheels for use by persons who cannot walk.
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- whereafter — after which
- whiggamore — one of a group of 17th-century Scottish insurgents
- while away — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
- whip snake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- whiplashes — Plural form of whiplash.