10-letter words containing w, a, t, e
- flyswatter — A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.
- fort wayne — a city in NE Indiana.
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- galleywest — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- germantown — a NW section of Philadelphia, Pa.: American defeat by British 1777.
- gray water — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
- graywether — sarsen.
- great wall — ancient wall in China
- great week — Holy Week.
- great worm — Internet Worm
- greatsword — Any generally straight bladed double edged sword large enough that it required the use of two hands to wield it effectively.
- grey water — household waste water that can be reused for some purposes without purification, e.g. bath water, which can be used to water plants
- guess what — used to announce news
- hagerstown — a city in NW Maryland.
- half-white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hate-watch — to watch (a TV show, movie, video, actor, etc.) that one professes to dislike, often with the intention to mock or criticize.
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- healthwise — With regard to health.
- heartworms — Plural form of heartworm.
- heath wren — either of two ground-nesting warblers of southern Australia, Hylacola pyrrhopygia or H. cauta, noted for their song and their powers of mimicry
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- hitherward — hither.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- in a sweat — perspiring
- in the raw — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- in the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- insect wax — Chinese wax.
- interweave — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- jack towel — a long towel with the ends sewed together, for hanging on a roller.
- james watt — James, 1736–1819, Scottish engineer and inventor.
- keep watch — observe, maintain a vigil
- kept woman — a woman maintained by a man as his mistress
- lake worth — a city in SE Florida.
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- law centre — an office, usually staffed by professional volunteers, at which free legal advice and information are provided to the general public
- lawrentian — of, relating to, or characteristic of D. H. Lawrence, his works, or his ideas.
- lead white — a poisonous pigment used in painting, consisting of white lead and characterized chiefly by a fugitive white color, covering power, and tough, flexible film-forming properties.
- left arrow — (character) The graphic which the 1963 version of ASCII had in place of the underscore character, ASCII 95.
- leftwardly — leftwards
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- light wave — the movement of light conceptualized as a wave, defined by such properties as reflection, refraction, and dispersion
- lightwaves — Plural form of lightwave.