10-letter words containing m, w, a
- well-armed — bearing firearms; having weapons: a heavily armed patrol.
- well-meant — A well-meant decision, action, or comment is intended to be helpful or kind but is unsuccessful or causes problems.
- well-named — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- 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.
- whatsaname — Any object whose name one does not know or cannot remember.
- wheat germ — the embryo or nucleus of the wheat kernel, used in or on foods as a concentrated source of vitamins.
- wheatworms — Plural form of wheatworm.
- whiggamore — one of a group of 17th-century Scottish insurgents
- whim-whams — nervousness or fright (esp in the phrase give someone the whim-whams)
- whip-smart — extremely clever
- whisky mac — a drink consisting of whisky and ginger wine
- white amur — grass carp
- white damp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.
- white meat — light-coloured poultry flesh
- whitmonday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- widowmaker — Alternative form of widow-maker.
- 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.
- william ii — (William Rufus"the Red") 1056?–1100, King of England 1087–1100 (son of William I, duke of Normandy).
- william iv — ("the Sailor-King") 1765–1837, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1830–37 (brother of George IV).
- williamson — Mount, a mountain in E California, in the Sierra Nevada N of Mount Whitney. 14,375 feet (4382 meters).
- willingham — Calder, 1922–95, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- wilson dam — a dam on the Tennessee River, in NW Alabama, at Muscle Shoals: a part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. 4862 feet (1482 meters) long; 137 feet (42 meters) high.
- windjammer — (formerly) a merchant ship propelled by sails.
- window ram — Window Random Access Memory
- winemaking — the procedures and processes carried out in the making and maturing of wine; viniculture; vinification.
- 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.
- woman-hour — a woman honored by a group.
- woman-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on a standard number of woman-days in a year of work.
- womanfully — in a manner full of womanly spirit: She struggled womanfully to complete the task.
- womanishly — In a womanish way.
- womanising — to make effeminate.
- womanizers — Plural form of womanizer.
- womanizing — Present participle of womanize.
- womanpower — potential or actual power from the endeavors of women: the utilization of womanpower during a great national emergency.
- womenswear — women's wear.
- workingman — a man of the working class; a man, whether skilled or unskilled, who earns his living at some manual or industrial work.
- workmaster — a master workman
- workstream — The organised output of several distinct, and often unrelated, work groups.
- worm grass — the pinkroot, Spigelia marilandica.
- worm snake — any of several small, wormlike snakes, especially Carphophis amoenus, of the eastern and central U.S.
- worm-eaten — eaten into or gnawed by worms.
- wykehamist — a pupil or former pupil of Winchester College
- zimbabwean — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.