10-letter words containing w, a, r, i, e
- warranties — Plural form of warranty.
- warrantise — a warranty; security
- warrantize — to guarantee the security of (land) to a person
- warrenlike — Resembling a warren; mazelike, labyrinthine.
- warrioress — a woman who is a warrior
- washateria — a launderette.
- washeteria — washateria.
- watch fire — a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
- water bird — an aquatic bird; a swimming or wading bird.
- water lily — any of various aquatic plants of the genus Nymphaea, species of which have large, disklike, floating leaves and showy flowers, especially N. odorata, of America, or N. alba, of Europe. Compare water lily family.
- water line — Nautical. the part of the outside of a ship's hull that is just at the water level.
- water main — a main pipe or conduit in a system for conveying water.
- water mill — a mill with machinery driven by water.
- water mint — a Eurasian mint plant, Mentha aquatica, of marshy places, having scented leaves and whorls of small flowers
- water pill — a diuretic pill.
- water pipe — a pipe for conveying water.
- water rail — an Old World rail, Rallus aquaticus, having olive-brown plumage marked with black and a long, red bill.
- water rice — wild rice.
- water sign — any of the three astrological signs, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, that are grouped together because of the shared attributes of sensitivity and emotionalism.
- water taxi — a motorboat that transports passengers for a fare.
- water-inch — the quantity of water (approx. 500 cubic feet) discharged in 24 hours through a circular opening of one inch diameter leading from a reservoir in which the water is constantly only high enough to cover the orifice.
- water-laid — noting a rope laid left-handed from three or four plain-laid ropes, in the making of which water was used to wet the fibers instead of the more customary oil or tallow.
- water-pipe — a pipe for conveying water.
- water-sick — (of soil) unproductive due to excessive watering or salt residues from irrigation.
- waterbrain — gid, in sheep.
- waterdrive — (of an oil or gas reservoir) using water to force out the oil or gas
- wateriness — the state or condition of being watery or diluted.
- watersider — a wharf labourer
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- watertight — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- waterville — a city in SW Maine.
- watervliet — a city in E New York, on the Hudson: oldest U.S. arsenal.
- wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
- wave train — a series of successive waves spaced at regular intervals.
- waveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- wearyingly — In a wearying way.
- weathering — the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
- weatherize — to make (a house or other building) secure against cold or stormy weather, as by adding insulation, siding, and storm windows.
- weaverbird — any of numerous African and Asian finchlike birds of the family Ploceidae, noted for their elaborately woven nests and colonial habits.
- websterian — pertaining to or characteristic of Daniel Webster, his political theories, or his oratory.
- weighboard — a thin layer (e.g. shale or clay) between bands of thicker strata (e.g. limestone or sandstone)
- weimaraner — one of a German breed of hunting dogs having a smooth silver-gray to dark-gray coat, a cropped tail, and blue-gray or amber eyes.
- weizsacker — Carl Friedrich von [kahrl free-drikh fuh n] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- well-aired — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- west irian — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- whaikorero — the art of formal speech-making
- wharfinger — a person who owns or has charge of a wharf.
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.