10-letter words containing r, a, w
- watervliet — a city in E New York, on the Hudson: oldest U.S. arsenal.
- waterweeds — Plural form of waterweed.
- 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.
- waymarking — A recreational activity involving the finding and logging of points of interest, usually with a GPS receiver and digital camera.
- waynesboro — a city in N Virginia.
- waziristan — a mountainous region in NW Pakistan.
- 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.
- 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.
- websterian — pertaining to or characteristic of Daniel Webster, his political theories, or his oratory.
- weighboard — a thin layer (e.g. shale or clay) between bands of thicker strata (e.g. limestone or sandstone)
- 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.
- 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.
- welsh harp — a type of harp in which the strings are arranged in three rows, used esp for the accompaniment of singing, improvisation on folk tunes, etc
- wentletrap — any of several marine gastropods of the family Epitonii (Scalariidae), having a whitish, spiraled shell.
- werejackal — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a jackal.
- werejaguar — (fiction, mythology) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a jaguar.
- west fargo — a city in SE North Dakota: suburb of Fargo.
- west irian — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- westwardly — having a westward direction or situation: the westwardly migration of the 1850s.
- whaikorero — the art of formal speech-making
- wharf shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.