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10-letter words containing w, a, b, r

  • scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
  • seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
  • straw boss — someone who works alongside other workers but who also acts in a supervisory role; assistant foreman
  • straw-boss — to act as a straw boss to: She was assigned to straw-boss the night shift.
  • strawberry — the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.
  • strawboard — coarse, yellow paperboard made of straw pulp, used in packing, for making boxes, etc.
  • sugar bowl — a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
  • sweetbread — Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
  • swinglebar — a whiffletree.
  • sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
  • throw back — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • two-bagger — two-base hit.
  • unwearable — not suitable for wear or not able to be worn
  • unworkable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  • urban wind — a turbulent wind at street level around tall structures in a city, characterized by a warming of the air by the heat output from these structures.
  • wabiserver — (operating system, tool)   An addition to Wabi which allows the Microsoft Windows application to run on a server, e.g. a powerful Intel-based computer, with users accessing it from their desktop which can be a cheap computer such as an X terminal.
  • waferboard — a structural material made from wood wafers of controlled thickness and length bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure.
  • wake-robin — the cuckoopint.
  • waldenburg — German name of Wałbrzych.
  • wall brown — any of three species of brown butterfly, esp the common Lasiommata megera, that habitually sun themselves on rocks and walls
  • wallboards — Plural form of wallboard.
  • wallenberg — Raoul (raʊl). 1912–?, Swedish diplomat, who helped (1944–45) thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape from the Nazis. After his arrest (1945) by the Soviets nothing is certainly known of him; despite claims that he is still alive he is presumed to have died in prison
  • war bonnet — an American Indian headdress consisting of a headband with a tail of ornamental feathers.
  • warble fly — any of several stout, woolly flies of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which produce warbles in cattle and other animals.
  • warblingly — in a warbling manner
  • wardrobing — a stock of clothes or costumes, as of a person or of a theatrical company.
  • washboards — Plural form of washboard.
  • water back — a reservoir or arrangement of tubing at the back of certain stoves or fireplaces for containing water to be heated by the fire.
  • water bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
  • water bear — a tardigrade.
  • water bird — an aquatic bird; a swimming or wading bird.
  • 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 butt — A water butt is a large barrel for collecting rain as it flows off a roof.
  • water-bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
  • 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.
  • waterbrain — gid, in sheep.
  • waterbucks — Plural form of waterbuck.
  • waterbuses — Plural form of waterbus.
  • wattlebark — a tanning substance obtained from black wattle tree bark
  • wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
  • wavenumber — (mathematics, physics) A measure of the number of waves in unit distance; inversely proportional to its wavelength.
  • waynesboro — a city in N Virginia.
  • weaverbird — any of numerous African and Asian finchlike birds of the family Ploceidae, noted for their elaborately woven nests and colonial habits.
  • webcrawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
  • webmasters — Plural form of webmaster.
  • websterian — pertaining to or characteristic of Daniel Webster, his political theories, or his oratory.
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