10-letter words containing r, a, w
- warrenlike — Resembling a warren; mazelike, labyrinthine.
- warrington — a city in Cheshire, in NW England, on the Mersey River.
- warrioress — a woman who is a warrior
- wart cress — either of two prostrate annuals, Coronopus squamatus and C. didymus, having small white flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wart snake — either of two stout, nonvenomous snakes of the family Acrochordindae, ranging from southeastern Asia to northern Australia, and having the skin covered with wartlike, three-pointed scales.
- washateria — a launderette.
- washboards — Plural form of washboard.
- washeteria — washateria.
- wassermann — August von [ou-goo st fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst fən/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, German physician and bacteriologist.
- wast water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 5 km (3 miles)
- wastepaper — paper thrown away as useless.
- wastewater — water that has been used in washing, flushing, manufacturing, etc.; sewage.
- watch fire — a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
- watch over — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- watchguard — a security chain or cord for a watch
- watchmaker — a person whose occupation it is to make and repair watches.
- watchstrap — fabric strip on a wearable timepiece
- watchtower — a tower on which a sentinel keeps watch.
- watchwords — Plural form of watchword.
- water arum — an aquatic arum plant, Calla palustris, of the North Temperate Zone, having heart-shaped leaves, tiny green flowers, and red berries.
- water back — a reservoir or arrangement of tubing at the back of certain stoves or fireplaces for containing water to be heated by the fire.
- water bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
- water bear — a tardigrade.
- water bird — an aquatic bird; a swimming or wading bird.
- water boat — a vessel for supplying ships with fresh water.
- water bomb — a bag filled with water and mischievously dropped from a height upon a passerby below.
- water butt — A water butt is a large barrel for collecting rain as it flows off a roof.
- water cart — a water seller's cart
- water cure — hydropathy; hydrotherapy.
- water down — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- water flag — a European iris, Iris pseudacorus, naturalized throughout eastern North America, with blue-green leaves and violet-veined, yellow flowers and growing in moist places.
- water flea — any of various small crustaceans that move about in the water like fleas, as those of the genus Daphnia.
- water gate — a gate for halting or controlling the flow of water in a watercourse; floodgate.
- water hole — a depression in the surface of the ground, containing water.
- water jump — any small body of water that a horse must jump over, as in a steeplechase.
- water leaf — (in Greek architecture and sculpture) a motif of heart-shaped leaves having a conspicuous midrib.
- 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 loss — evapotranspiration (def 2).
- water main — a main pipe or conduit in a system for conveying water.
- water mass — a large body of oceanic water usually identified by a well-defined relationship between temperature and salinity or chemical content: usually a mixture of two or more such bodies, each having a specified temperature and salinity
- water mill — a mill with machinery driven by water.
- water mint — a Eurasian mint plant, Mentha aquatica, of marshy places, having scented leaves and whorls of small flowers
- water mold — any of various aquatic fungi of the phylum Oomycota, free-living or parasitic in fish and other aquatic organisms.
- water oats — wild rice.
- water park — an amusement park featuring swimming pools, water slides, wave pools, fountains, or other attractions involving water.
- water pill — a diuretic pill.
- water pipe — a pipe for conveying water.
- water plug — a fireplug; hydrant.
- water polo — an aquatic game played by two teams of seven swimmers each, the object being to score goals by pushing, carrying, or passing an inflated ball and tossing it into the opponent's goal, defended by a goalkeeper.