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10-letter words containing t, e, n, w, i

  • underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
  • underwrite — to write under or at the foot of, especially under other written matter.
  • united way — a nationwide civic organization (United Way of America) or any of its affiliated local groups that raise funds through individual contributions and allocate them to benefit civic and charitable programs and organizations, as the YMCA and Red Cross. Formerly Community Chests and Councils of America, United Community Funds and Councils of America.
  • unswitched — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
  • unweighted — not burdened or encumbered with a heavy load or with mental or emotional matters, problems, etc.
  • unwithered — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
  • unwithheld — not withheld; given rather than held back
  • viewpoints — a place affording a view of something; position of observation: to sketch a river from the viewpoint of a bluff.
  • wafer-thin — very thin: a wafer-thin slice.
  • wainscoted — Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
  • waistlines — Plural form of waistline.
  • waitperson — a waiter or waitress.
  • wanthriven — poorly developed or undersized
  • warrantied — an act or an instance of warranting; assurance; authorization; warrant.
  • warranties — Plural form of warranty.
  • warrantise — a warranty; security
  • warrantize — to guarantee the security of (land) to a person
  • water line — Nautical. the part of the outside of a ship's hull that is just at the water level.
  • water main — a main pipe or conduit in a system for conveying water.
  • water mint — a Eurasian mint plant, Mentha aquatica, of marshy places, having scented leaves and whorls of small flowers
  • 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-inch — the quantity of water (approx. 500 cubic feet) discharged in 24 hours through a circular opening of one inch diameter leading from a reservoir in which the water is constantly only high enough to cover the orifice.
  • waterbrain — gid, in sheep.
  • wateriness — the state or condition of being watery or diluted.
  • wave train — a series of successive waves spaced at regular intervals.
  • wax insect — any of several scale insects that secrete a commercially valuable waxy substance, especially a Chinese scale insect, Ericerus pe-la.
  • weak point — an area of weakness
  • weathering — the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
  • 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.
  • weeknights — Plural form of weeknight.
  • weight man — a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
  • weightings — Plural form of weighting.
  • wellington — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
  • west irian — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • west point — a military reservation in SE New York, on the Hudson: U.S. Military Academy.
  • westernise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of westernize.
  • westernism — a word, idiom, or practice characteristic of people of the Occident or of the western U.S.
  • westernize — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
  • whereuntil — until which
  • whethering — (obsolete) The retention of the afterbirth in cows.
  • whippeting — the sport of racing whippets
  • white line — a stripe of white paint, tiles, or the like, that marks the center or outer edge of a road.
  • white lung — asbestosis.
  • white nile — the part of the Nile that flows NE to Khartoum, Sudan. About 500 miles (800 km) long.
  • white pine — a large, irregularly branched pine, Pinus strobus, of eastern North America, having gray bark and yielding a light-colored, soft, light wood of great commercial importance.
  • white wine — wine having a yellowish to amber color derived from the light-colored grapes used in production, or from dark grapes whose skins, pulp, and seeds have been removed before fermentation.
  • whiteprint — a proof print made by means of the diazo process.
  • whitethorn — a hawthorn, Crataegus laevigata, having white flowers.
  • wiesenthal — Simon, 1908–2005, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals.
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