10-letter words containing r, o, w, e
- war office — the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
- war record — the recorded achievements of a soldier, sailor, airman etc in a war
- warehoused — Simple past tense and past participle of warehouse.
- warehouser — warehouseman.
- warehouses — Plural form of warehouse.
- warmongers — Plural form of warmonger.
- warrioress — a woman who is a warrior
- 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.
- watchtower — a tower on which a sentinel keeps watch.
- 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 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 hole — a depression in the surface of the ground, containing water.
- water loss — evapotranspiration (def 2).
- 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 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.
- water vole — A water vole is a small furry animal that can swim. Water voles live in holes in the banks of rivers.
- water-cool — to cool by means of water, especially by water circulating in pipes or a water jacket, as an engine or machine gun.
- water-soak — to soak or saturate with water.
- waterboard — Subject (someone) to the process of waterboarding.
- waterborne — floating or moving on water; supported by water: The ship was waterborne ten months after the keel was laid.
- 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.
- waterfront — land on the edge of a body of water.
- waterhouse — Alfred. 1830–1905, British architect; a leader of the Gothic Revival. His buildings include Manchester Town Hall (1868) and the Natural History Museum, London (1881)
- 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.
- waterpower — Alternative form of water power.
- waterproof — impervious to water.
- watersport — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- waterspout — Also called rainspout. a pipe running down the side of a house or other building to carry away water from the gutter of the roof.
- 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.
- 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
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- 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.
- weaponeers — Plural form of weaponeer.
- web editor — software for creating internet content
- 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.
- wellformed — Alternative form of well-formed.
- werewolves — (in folklore and superstition) a human being who has changed into a wolf, or is capable of assuming the form of a wolf, while retaining human intelligence.
- west fargo — a city in SE North Dakota: suburb of Fargo.
- west timor — province of Indonesia, consisting primarily of the W half of Timor
- wetterhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 12,149 feet (3715 meters).
- whaikorero — the art of formal speech-making
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).