10-letter words containing s, w, i, a
- waistlines — Plural form of waistline.
- waitperson — a waiter or waitress.
- waitress's — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waitresses — Plural form of waitress.
- waldensian — a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.
- wallopings — Plural form of walloping.
- walsingham — Sir Francis, c1530–90, English statesman: secretary of state 1573–90.
- walvis bay — an inlet of the S Atlantic Ocean, on the coast of Namibia, in SW Africa.
- wanderings — Plural form of wandering.
- war crimes — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- wardenship — The state of being a warden.
- warlordism — a military leader, especially of a warlike nation.
- warranties — Plural form of warranty.
- warrantise — a warranty; security
- warrioress — a woman who is a warrior
- washateria — a launderette.
- washbasins — Plural form of washbasin.
- washeteria — washateria.
- washing-up — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- wasp waist — a woman's slender waistline, especially when the result of tight corseting.
- wassailing — Present participle of wassail.
- waste pipe — a pipe for draining liquid waste or excess liquids.
- watch list — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
- water sign — any of the three astrological signs, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, that are grouped together because of the shared attributes of sensitivity and emotionalism.
- water-sick — (of soil) unproductive due to excessive watering or salt residues from irrigation.
- wateriness — the state or condition of being watery or diluted.
- watersider — a wharf labourer
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- wave aside — If you wave aside something such as a suggestion, explanation, or idea, you decide that it is not important enough to consider seriously.
- waveguides — Plural form of waveguide.
- wax insect — any of several scale insects that secrete a commercially valuable waxy substance, especially a Chinese scale insect, Ericerus pe-la.
- waziristan — a mountainous region in NW Pakistan.
- wealthiest — Superlative form of wealthy.
- weaselling — (British) present participle of weasel.
- webcasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- websterian — pertaining to or characteristic of Daniel Webster, his political theories, or his oratory.
- 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.
- west allis — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- west irian — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- whim-whams — nervousness or fright (esp in the phrase give someone the whim-whams)
- whip snake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- whip-smart — extremely clever
- whip-stall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiplashes — Plural form of whiplash.
- whipsawing — Present participle of whipsaw.
- whipstalls — Plural form of whipstall.