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10-letter words containing w, a, i, l

  • wildcatter — an oil prospector.
  • wilhelmina — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
  • willamette — a river flowing N through NW Oregon into the Columbia River at Portland. About 290 miles (465 km) long.
  • willemstad — the main island of the Netherlands Antilles, off the NW coast of Venezuela. 173 sq. mi. (448 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
  • william ii — (William Rufus"the Red") 1056?–1100, King of England 1087–1100 (son of William I, duke of Normandy).
  • william iv — ("the Sailor-King") 1765–1837, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1830–37 (brother of George IV).
  • williamsonMount, a mountain in E California, in the Sierra Nevada N of Mount Whitney. 14,375 feet (4382 meters).
  • willinghamCalder, 1922–95, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • willow oak — an oak, Quercus phellos, of the southwestern U.S., having entire, narrow leaves, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in the construction of buildings.
  • willowware — china using the willow pattern.
  • willywacks — willowwacks.
  • wilson dam — a dam on the Tennessee River, in NW Alabama, at Muscle Shoals: a part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. 4862 feet (1482 meters) long; 137 feet (42 meters) high.
  • wind plant — a grouping of devices, consisting of a tower, propellers, alternator, generator, and storage batteries, designed to produce electricity by converting the mechanical force of wind on blades or a rotor into electricity.
  • wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
  • windfallen — having fallen because of wind
  • windlassed — Simple past tense and past participle of windlass.
  • windlasses — (nautical) Plural form of windlass.
  • wine glass — stemmed glass drinking vessel
  • winlestrae — windlestraw.
  • winstanley — Gerrard. ?1609–60, English radical; leader of the Diggers (1649–50) and author of the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652)
  • wire glass — a pane or sheet of glass having a network of wire embedded within it as a reinforcement.
  • wirewalker — an acrobat who performs on a wire tightrope.
  • witch ball — a decorated blown glass ball.
  • withdrawal — Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
  • wizardlike — Resembling a wizard or some aspect of one.
  • wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
  • womanishly — In a womanish way.
  • workaholic — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
  • world fair — an international exhibition of industrial, scientific, artistic etc achievements of different countries in the world
  • wraithlike — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
  • wranglings — Plural form of wrangling.
  • writ large — If you say that something is writ large, you mean that it is very obvious.
  • yellowtail — a game fish, Seriola lalandei, of California.
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