10-letter words containing a, w, e
- 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 gauge — anemometer.
- wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- wind shake — Also called anemosis. a flaw in wood supposed to be caused by the action of strong winds upon the trunk of the tree.
- wind shear — the rate at which wind velocity changes from point to point in a given direction.
- windbreaks — Plural form of windbreak.
- windfallen — having fallen because of wind
- windjammer — (formerly) a merchant ship propelled by sails.
- windlassed — Simple past tense and past participle of windlass.
- windlasses — (nautical) Plural form of windlass.
- windowpane — a plate of glass for filling a window sash within the frame.
- wine glass — stemmed glass drinking vessel
- winemaking — the procedures and processes carried out in the making and maturing of wine; viniculture; vinification.
- winetaster — a critic, writer, buyer, or other professional who tests the quality of wine by tasting.
- wing-weary — tired from flying or traveling.
- wingbacked — Having wingbacks.
- winged pea — a trailing southern European plant, Lotus tetragonolobus, of the legume family, having purplish-red flowers and edible pods and seeds.
- wingspread — the distance between the most outward tips of the wings when they are as extended as possible.
- 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)
- winter war — the war of the winter of 1939–40 between Finland and the USSR after which the Finns surrendered the Karelian Isthmus to the USSR
- wire fraud — the crime of using interstate wire, television, or radio communications with the intent to defraud.
- wire gauge — a gauge calibrated for determining the diameter of wire.
- wire gauze — a gauzelike fabric woven of very fine wires.
- wire glass — a pane or sheet of glass having a network of wire embedded within it as a reinforcement.
- wire grass — Canada bluegrass.
- wire-gauge — a gauge calibrated for determining the diameter of wire.
- wirehaired — having coarse, stiff, wirelike hair.
- wiretapped — Simple past tense and past participle of wiretap.
- wiretapper — a person who taps wires to learn the nature of messages passing over them.
- wirewalker — an acrobat who performs on a wire tightrope.
- wisecracks — Make a wisecrack.
- withdrawed — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of withdraw.
- withdrawer — One who withdraws.
- wizardlike — Resembling a wizard or some aspect of one.
- woadwaxens — Plural form of woadwaxen.
- wolframate — tungstate.
- 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.
- wolfsbanes — Plural form of wolfsbane.
- woman-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on a standard number of woman-days in a year of work.
- womanizers — Plural form of womanizer.