10-letter words containing a, w, l, s
- wages slip — a small piece of paper with a printed record of a person's wages
- wagonloads — Plural form of wagonload.
- waistcloth — a loincloth.
- waistlines — Plural form of waistline.
- waldensian — a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.
- waldgraves — Plural form of waldgrave.
- walk socks — men's knee-length stockings
- walkabouts — Plural form of walkabout.
- walkshorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- wallboards — Plural form of wallboard.
- wallcharts — Plural form of wallchart.
- wallopings — Plural form of walloping.
- wallpapers — Plural form of wallpaper.
- wallposter — (in China) a usually lengthy notice, complaint, personal opinion, etc., handwritten in large characters and hung on walls in cities, as a means of communication and for criticizing or attacking government policy or politicians.
- walsingham — Sir Francis, c1530–90, English statesman: secretary of state 1573–90.
- walvis bay — an inlet of the S Atlantic Ocean, on the coast of Namibia, in SW Africa.
- wanderlust — a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.
- wanrestful — uneasy or restless
- war clouds — sign of trouble ahead
- warlordism — a military leader, especially of a warlike nation.
- washcloths — Plural form of washcloth.
- wassailing — Present participle of wassail.
- waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
- waste well — absorbing well.
- wastefully — In a wasteful manner.
- wastelands — Plural form of wasteland.
- watch list — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
- watcom sql — (database, product) A family of databases from Watcom International, based on scalable technology and a SQL database engine. Version 4.0 adds stored procedures and triggers. It is designed for environments ranging from large departmental networks with a diverse range of PC client systems, to peer-to-peer workgroups, to stand-alone PCs. It is available in stand-alone versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2 and MS DOS; and multi-user network server versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, NetWare NLM and MS DOS.
- water loss — evapotranspiration (def 2).
- water seal — a small amount of water contained in the trap of a drain to prevent the passage of foul smells
- waterfalls — Plural form of waterfall.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- wavelessly — (of water) Without being disturbed by waves; tranquilly.
- wealthiest — Superlative form of wealthy.
- weaponless — Lacking a weapon.
- weasel out — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
- weaselling — (British) present participle of weasel.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- 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.
- 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.
- westwardly — having a westward direction or situation: the westwardly migration of the 1850s.
- whalebacks — Plural form of whaleback.
- whaleboats — Plural form of whaleboat.
- whalebones — Plural form of whalebone.
- wheelbases — Plural form of wheelbase.
- whip-stall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiplashes — Plural form of whiplash.