6-letter words containing r, w
- wirily — made of wire.
- wiring — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- wirrah — a saltwater fish, Acanthistius serratus, of Australia, with bright blue spots
- wirral — a unitary authority in NW England, in Merseyside. Pop: 313 800 (2003 est). Area: 158 sq km (61 sq miles)
- wisard — Archaic form of wizard.
- wisc-r — a group of intelligence tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) later revised (WAIS-R) the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) later revised (WISC-R) the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale, no longer used, all of which emphasize performance and verbal skills and give separate scores for subtests in vocabulary, arithmetic, memory span, assembly of objects, and other abilities.
- wisher — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- wismar — a seaport in N Germany, on the Baltic.
- wister — Owen, 1860–1938, U.S. novelist.
- wither — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- witter — (obsolete, or, dialectal) knowing, certain, sure, wis.
- wivern — a two-legged winged dragon having the hinder part of a serpent with a barbed tail.
- wizard — a person who practices magic; magician or sorcerer.
- woburn — a city in E Massachusetts, N of Boston.
- wohler — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, German chemist.
- wolfer — a person who hunts wolves
- wolver — a person who hunts for wolves.
- womera — woomera.
- wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- wonner — an inhabitant, an occupant
- wooers — Plural form of wooer.
- woofer — a loudspeaker designed for the reproduction of low-frequency sounds.
- wooler — a domestic animal raised for its wool.
- worble — Alternative form of wormil.
- worded — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- wordle — One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.
- wordly — Lb rare Of, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal.
- worked — of, for, or concerning work: work clothes.
- worker — a person or thing that works.
- workup — an undesirable deposit of ink on a surface being printed, caused by the forcing into type-high position of quads or other spacing material.
- worlde — Archaic spelling of world.
- worlds — Plural form of world.
- worldy — (rare) Alternative form of worldly.
- wormed — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
- wormer — A substance administered to animals or birds to expel parasitic worms.
- wormil — Any botfly larva that burrows in or beneath the skin of animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera.
- worral — a monitor lizard, a varan
- worrit — (dialect, nonstandard) Worry; anxiety.
- worsen — Make or become worse.
- worser — (nonstandard) worse.
- worses — bad or ill in a greater or higher degree; inferior in excellence, quality, or character.
- worsts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of worst.
- worths — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
- worthy — having adequate or great merit, character, or value: a worthy successor.
- wortle — a plate with holes for drawing wire or lead pipe through in order to lengthen it and reduce its width
- wowser — an excessively puritanical person.
- wowzer — (NZ, slang) Something of great interest or beauty; something worth saying
- wracks — Plural form of wrack.
- wraith — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
- wrappe — Obsolete spelling of wrap.