10-letter words containing l, e, a, w, o
- water-cool — to cool by means of water, especially by water circulating in pipes or a water jacket, as an engine or machine gun.
- watercolor — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
- watermelon — the large, roundish or elongated fruit of a trailing vine, Citrullus lanata, of the gourd family, having a hard, green rind and a sweet, juicy, usually pink or red pulp.
- wattlework — a simple covering for a human dwelling constructed from interwoven branches and leaved twigs
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- 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.
- well-woman — a woman who, although not ill, attends a health-service clinic for preventive monitoring, health education, and advice
- welshwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.
- whaleboats — Plural form of whaleboat.
- whalebones — Plural form of whalebone.
- wheat pool — (in Western Canada) a cereal farmers' cooperative
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- whole gale — a wind of 55–63 miles per hour (24–28 m/sec).
- wholegrain — A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.
- wholesaled — Simple past tense and past participle of wholesale.
- wholesaler — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wholesales — Plural form of wholesale.
- wholescale — Wholesale (extensive).
- wholewheat — Denoting flour or bread made from whole grains of wheat, including the husk or outer layer.
- willowware — china using the willow pattern.
- 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.
- wondergoal — (sport) An excellent goal.
- wonderland — a land of wonders or marvels.
- woodlander — an inhabitant of the woods.
- wool table — a slatted wooden table in a shearing shed where fleeces are skirted and classed
- woolgather — to engage in woolgathering.
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- worktables — Plural form of worktable.
- world beat — (sometimes initial capital letters) any of various styles of popular music combining traditional, indigenous forms with elements of another culture's music, especially of Western rock and pop.
- worldscale — the standard scale of freight rates for oil tankers
- yellow pad — a scratch pad of yellow, lined paper.
- yellow sea — an arm of the Pacific N of the East China Sea, between China and Korea.
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yellowhead — Chaetodon xanthocephalus, the yellowhead butterflyfish.
- yellowtail — a game fish, Seriola lalandei, of California.
- yellowware — a type of pottery made from yellowish clay and finished with a transparent, yellow-colored glaze.