10-letter words containing w, a, r, i, e
- edward vii — (Albert Edward"the Peacemaker") 1841–1910, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1901–10 (son of Queen Victoria).
- either way — whichever is true
- enwrapping — Present participle of enwrap.
- fine-drawn — drawn out to extreme fineness or thinness.
- firewalled — Simple past tense and past participle of firewall.
- firewarden — a person having authority in the prevention or extinguishing of fires, as in towns or camps.
- go haywire — to behave or perform erratically
- hair weave — the process of hairweaving.
- hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- higher law — an ethical or religious principle considered as taking precedence over the laws of society, and to which one may appeal in order to justify disobedience to a constitution or enacted law with which it conflicts.
- hillwalker — a person who goes hillwalking
- hitherward — hither.
- imari ware — Japanese porcelain noted for its rich floral underglaze decoration in iron-red, blue, and gold, and later copied in China and Europe.
- in the raw — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- interweave — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- inwardness — the state of being inward or internal: the inwardness of the body's organs.
- iron-jawed — having a jaw of or like iron: an iron-jawed press; an iron-jawed fighter.
- ladieswear — clothes designed for women
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- lawrentian — of, relating to, or characteristic of D. H. Lawrence, his works, or his ideas.
- lawyerlike — Resembling a lawyer or some aspect of one.
- life arrow — an arrowlike projectile for carrying a line for use in maritime rescue operations.
- like water — lavishly; freely
- markiewicz — Constance, Countess, original name Constance Gore-Booth. 1868–1927, Irish nationalist, married to a Polish count. She fought in the Easter Rising (1916) and was sentenced to death but reprieved. The first woman elected to the British parliament (1918), she refused to take her seat
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- middleware — Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network.
- miswandred — having strayed or become lost or gone off course
- moudiewart — a mole
- new iberia — a city in S Louisiana.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- piano wire — a very thin steel wire of high tensile strength.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- powertrain — (in a motorized vehicle) the whole mechanism by which power is generated and transmitted to the road, surrounding air, water, etc
- prewarning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- preweaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- prize draw — raffle in which sth is won
- prizewoman — a female prize winner
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- radio wave — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rapidwrite — (language, tool) A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
- rapier wit — ability to deliver witty and cutting remarks
- raw sienna — a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)