9-letter words containing t, w, i, r
- waterpick — a portable electric appliance that uses a stream of water under force to remove food particles from between the teeth and to massage the gums.
- waterside — the margin, bank, or shore of a river, lake, ocean, etc.
- waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.
- waterzooi — A type of Flemish stew, traditionally made with fish.
- way train — a train that stops at way stations
- wealthier — Comparative form of wealthy.
- wear thin — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- weightier — Comparative form of weighty.
- weird out — to cause (someone) to feel afraid or uncomfortable
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarite — a person who is on welfare
- weltering — to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
- weretiger — (fiction, mythological) A creature of Southeast Asian myth; a shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a tiger.
- wernerite — a variety of scapolite.
- westering — moving or shifting toward the west: the westering sun; a westering wind.
- wethering — Present participle of wether.
- wheatbird — A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
- whereinto — Into which.
- wherewith — Rare. wherewithal.
- whistlers — Plural form of whistler.
- whitbread — Fatima. born 1961, British javelin thrower: won gold at the World Championships (1987)
- white fir — a tall, narrow fir, Abies concolor, of western North America, yielding a soft wood used for lumber, pulp, boxes, etc.
- white rat — an albino variety of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus, used in biological experiments.
- white rot — a decay of wood caused by lignase-producing fungi, especially Phanerochaete chrysosporium.
- whiteacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from blackacre).
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whiteners — Plural form of whitener.
- whiteware — white earthenware
- whithered — Simple past tense and past participle of whither.
- whittaker — Charles Evans, 1901–73, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1957–62.
- whittawer — a person who converts skins into white leather; a tawer
- whitworth — Kathrynne Ann ("Kathy") born 1939, U.S. golfer.
- wilburite — a member of a conservative body of Quakers formed in 1845 in protest against the evangelicalism of the Gurneyites.
- wildcraft — The harvesting of wild plants to sell or make into saleable products.
- wiltshire — Also, Wilts [wilts] /wɪlts/ (Show IPA). a county in S England. 1345 sq. mi. (3485 sq. km). County seat: Salisbury.
- windburnt — Alternative form of windburned.
- windstorm — a storm with heavy wind but little or no precipitation.
- windthrow — the uprooting of trees by wind
- winterfed — Simple past tense and past participle of winterfeed.
- wintering — Present participle of winter.
- winterish — Characteristic of winter.
- winterize — to prepare (an automobile, house, etc.) for cold weather by (in automobiles) adding antifreeze and changing oil or (in houses) adding insulation, heating units, etc.
- winterset — a drama in verse (1935) by Maxwell Anderson.
- wirephoto — a device for transmitting photographs over distances by wire. a photograph so transmitted.
- wisterias — Plural form of wisteria.
- withdrawl — Misspelling of withdrawal.
- withdrawn — past participle of withdraw.
- withdraws — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of withdraw.
- withe rod — either of two North American viburnums, Viburnum cassinoides or V. nudum, having tough, osierlike shoots.
- withereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wither.