9-letter words containing w, e, a, r, i
- wandering — moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
- war bride — a woman who marries a serviceman about to go overseas in wartime.
- war crime — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- wassailer — One who wassails.
- wasteweir — A weir that allows the escape of excess water from a canal or reservoir.
- water ice — ice formed by direct freezing of fresh or salt water, and not by compacting of snow.
- water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
- waterbird — A bird that frequents water, especially one that habitually wades or swims in fresh water.
- waterings — Plural form of watering.
- waterlike — Resembling water.
- waterlily — Alternative spelling of water lily.
- waterline — Nautical. the part of the outside of a ship's hull that is just at the water level.
- watermill — A mill (for whatever purpose) powered by water.
- watermint — Alternative spelling of water mint.
- waterpick — a portable electric appliance that uses a stream of water under force to remove food particles from between the teeth and to massage the gums.
- waterside — the margin, bank, or shore of a river, lake, ocean, etc.
- waterskin — The skin of a goat used as a container for water.
- waterzooi — A type of Flemish stew, traditionally made with fish.
- wealthier — Comparative form of wealthy.
- wear ship — to change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
- wear thin — to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a saber; to wear a disguise.
- weariedly — In an wearied manner; wearily.
- weariless — unwearying; tireless: a weariless vigil.
- weariness — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
- wearingly — gradually impairing or wasting: Reading small print can be wearing on the eyes.
- wearisome — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarite — a person who is on welfare
- wernerian — pertaining to or characteristic of the views or the classificatory system of Alfred Werner.
- whangarei — a port in New Zealand, the northernmost city of North Island: oil refinery. Pop: 72 200 (2004 est)
- wheatbird — A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
- whitbread — Fatima. born 1961, British javelin thrower: won gold at the World Championships (1987)
- white rat — an albino variety of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus, used in biological experiments.
- whiteacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from blackacre).
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whiteware — white earthenware
- whittaker — Charles Evans, 1901–73, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1957–62.
- whittawer — a person who converts skins into white leather; a tawer
- wigmakers — Plural form of wigmaker.
- wild pear — a wild variety of pear, especially Pyrus pyraster or Pyrus caucasica
- windbreak — a growth of trees, a structure of boards, or the like, serving as a shelter from the wind.
- wine rack — a framework for holding a number of bottles of wine in a horizontal position
- winemaker — an expert in the production of wines.
- wiredrawn — drawn out long and thin like a wire.
- wireframe — a visual representation of the structure of a web page
- wiregrass — any of various grasses, such as Bermuda grass, that have tough wiry roots or rhizomes
- wiseacres — Plural form of wiseacre.
- wisecrack — a smart or facetious remark.
- wisterias — Plural form of wisteria.