10-letter words containing e, w, r
- waterwheel — a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
- waterworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a complete system of reservoirs, pipelines, conduits, etc., by which water is collected, purified, stored, and pumped to urban users.
- wattlebark — a tanning substance obtained from black wattle tree bark
- wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
- wattlework — a simple covering for a human dwelling constructed from interwoven branches and leaved twigs
- wave front — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- wave power — power extracted from the motion of sea waves at the coast
- wave train — a series of successive waves spaced at regular intervals.
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- wavemeters — Plural form of wavemeter.
- wavenumber — (mathematics, physics) A measure of the number of waves in unit distance; inversely proportional to its wavelength.
- waveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- wax myrtle — an aromatic shrub, Myrica cerifera, of the southeastern U.S., bearing small berries coated with wax that is sometimes used in making candles.
- waynesboro — a city in N Virginia.
- weak force — a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta-decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles.
- weaker sex — the female sex; women (usually used facetiously): my life as a member of the weaker sex.
- weaponeers — Plural form of weaponeer.
- wearyingly — In a wearying way.
- weathering — the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
- weatherize — to make (a house or other building) secure against cold or stormy weather, as by adding insulation, siding, and storm windows.
- weatherman — a person who forecasts and reports the weather; meteorologist.
- weathermen — Plural form of weatherman.
- weaverbird — any of numerous African and Asian finchlike birds of the family Ploceidae, noted for their elaborately woven nests and colonial habits.
- web editor — software for creating internet content
- web member — any of the structural members of a truss between the chords.
- web server — a remote computer or a computer program that delivers Web pages to a user's computer, or a client, upon request from a web browser.
- webcrawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- webmasters — Plural form of webmaster.
- webmeister — (computing, informal) A webmaster.
- websterian — pertaining to or characteristic of Daniel Webster, his political theories, or his oratory.
- websterite — aluminite.
- websurfing — Present participle of websurf.
- weedkiller — a herbicide.
- weekenders — Plural form of weekender.
- weighboard — a thin layer (e.g. shale or clay) between bands of thicker strata (e.g. limestone or sandstone)
- weightroom — an exercise room with weightlifting equipment.
- weimaraner — one of a German breed of hunting dogs having a smooth silver-gray to dark-gray coat, a cropped tail, and blue-gray or amber eyes.
- weinberger — Caspar W(illard) ("Cap") 1917–2006, U.S. government official: Secretary of Defense 1981–87.
- weiss beer — a light-colored, highly effervescent beer prepared largely from malted wheat.
- weisswurst — a variety of bratwurst in which the meat is cooked before being stuffed into the casing
- weizsacker — Carl Friedrich von [kahrl free-drikh fuh n] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- well aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- well water — water drawn from a well
- well-aired — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- well-armed — bearing firearms; having weapons: a heavily armed patrol.
- well-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- well-drawn — past participle of draw.
- well-tried — A well-tried treatment, product, or method is one that has been used many times before and so is known to work well or to be successful.