10-letter words containing t, w, o, e, r
- two-seater — a vehicle accommodating two persons.
- two-storey — (of a building) having two floors or levels
- two-stroke — relating to or designating an internal-combustion engine whose piston makes two strokes for every explosion
- two-suiter — a suitcase designed to hold two suits and additional smaller items.
- underthrow — to throw a ball or other object short of (the intended receiver or target)
- underwrote — simple past tense of underwrite.
- veto-power — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- waiterhood — the state of being a waiter
- waitperson — a waiter or waitress.
- wallposter — (in China) a usually lengthy notice, complaint, personal opinion, etc., handwritten in large characters and hung on walls in cities, as a means of communication and for criticizing or attacking government policy or politicians.
- war bonnet — an American Indian headdress consisting of a headband with a tail of ornamental feathers.
- 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.
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- web editor — software for creating internet content
- weightroom — an exercise room with weightlifting equipment.
- 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).
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).
- wheatworms — Plural form of wheatworm.
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- whether…or — if on the one hand…or even if on the other hand
- white rock — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, SE of Vancouver.
- white room — a room from which all contaminants have been eliminated and in which temperature, humidity, and pressure are controlled: used for assembly and repair of precision mechanisms, in preventing infection, etc.