10-letter words containing w, a, r, f, e
- wafer-thin — very thin: a wafer-thin slice.
- waferboard — a structural material made from wood wafers of controlled thickness and length bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure.
- wage drift — the change in the amount by which actual earnings exceed negotiated earnings
- wallflower — a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.
- wanrestful — uneasy or restless
- war office — the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
- warble fly — any of several stout, woolly flies of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which produce warbles in cattle and other animals.
- warfighter — A soldier in combat.
- watch fire — a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
- water flag — a European iris, Iris pseudacorus, naturalized throughout eastern North America, with blue-green leaves and violet-veined, yellow flowers and growing in moist places.
- water flea — any of various small crustaceans that move about in the water like fleas, as those of the genus Daphnia.
- water leaf — (in Greek architecture and sculpture) a motif of heart-shaped leaves having a conspicuous midrib.
- water-fast — (of a color or dye) resistant to the effects caused by water; not changed or faded by the action of water.
- water-free — containing no water
- watercraft — skill in boating and water sports.
- waterfalls — Plural form of waterfall.
- 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.
- waterproof — impervious to water.
- 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.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- weak force — a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta-decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- west fargo — a city in SE North Dakota: suburb of Fargo.
- wharf shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- wharfinger — a person who owns or has charge of a wharf.
- whereafter — after which
- wifebeater — One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats one’s wife, or a husband prone to violence.
- wire fraud — the crime of using interstate wire, television, or radio communications with the intent to defraud.
- wolframate — tungstate.
- 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.