10-letter words containing e, a, r, l, i
- verulamian — of or relating to Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam.
- verulamium — ancient name of St. Albans.
- vestibular — of, relating to, or resembling a vestibule.
- victualler — a person who furnishes victuals, especially a sutler.
- violet ray — the shortest ray of the visible spectrum
- virtualize — to create a virtual version of (a computer, operating system, data storage device, etc.), which is not itself an independent device but both works and appears to the user as a single, physical entity: A virtualized computer server can boost processing power and reduce costs.
- viscerally — of or relating to the viscera.
- visualizer — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- vitrailled — characterized by the presence of stained-glass windows
- vitriolate — relating to vitriol
- vorticella — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.
- vulcanizer — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
- waldemar i — ("the Great") 1131–82, king of Denmark 1157–82.
- warrenlike — Resembling a warren; mazelike, labyrinthine.
- water lily — any of various aquatic plants of the genus Nymphaea, species of which have large, disklike, floating leaves and showy flowers, especially N. odorata, of America, or N. alba, of Europe. Compare water lily family.
- water line — Nautical. the part of the outside of a ship's hull that is just at the water level.
- water mill — a mill with machinery driven by water.
- water pill — a diuretic pill.
- water rail — an Old World rail, Rallus aquaticus, having olive-brown plumage marked with black and a long, red bill.
- water-laid — noting a rope laid left-handed from three or four plain-laid ropes, in the making of which water was used to wet the fibers instead of the more customary oil or tallow.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- waterville — a city in SW Maine.
- watervliet — a city in E New York, on the Hudson: oldest U.S. arsenal.
- wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
- waveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- wearyingly — In a wearying way.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- well-aired — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- wheelchair — a chair mounted on wheels for use by persons who cannot walk.
- wholegrain — A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.
- wienerwald — a forested and wooded hill range in NE Lower Austria, W of Vienna: resorts.
- 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.
- wildcatter — an oil prospector.
- willowware — china using the willow pattern.
- winlestrae — windlestraw.
- 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.
- x terminal — (hardware) An intelligent terminal which operates as an X server directly connected to Ethernet. Not to be confused with the program xterm which is an X client.
- yearningly — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
- yttrialite — (mineralogy) A rare, highly radioactive yttrium thorium sorosilicate mineral with conchoidal fracture.
- z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.