9-letter words containing w, e, a, r
- warerooms — Plural form of wareroom.
- warhorses — Plural form of warhorse.
- warm over — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- warm tone — a yellow, brown, olive, or reddish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- warmed-up — warmed-over (def 1).
- warmonger — a person who advocates, endorses, or tries to precipitate war.
- warp beam — a roller, located at the back of a loom, on which the warp ends are wound in preparation for weaving.
- warplanes — Plural form of warplane.
- warranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- warrantee — a person to whom a warranty is made.
- warranter — One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.
- warreners — Plural form of warrener.
- wash over — water: cover
- washerman — a man who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundryman.
- washermen — Plural form of washerman.
- wassailer — One who wassails.
- wasserman — (obsolete) A mythical sea-monster, being part-man, and thought to destroy ships.
- wasterful — Lb obsolete wasteful.
- wasteweir — A weir that allows the escape of excess water from a canal or reservoir.
- water ash — hoptree.
- water bag — a bag, sometimes made of skin, leather, etc, but in Australia usually canvas, for holding, carrying, and keeping water cool
- water bed — a bed having a liquid-filled rubber or plastic mattress in a rigid, often heated, waterproof frame, and providing a surface that conforms to the sleeper's body in any position.
- water boy — a person who carries a canteen or bucket of drinking water to those too occupied to fetch it, as to soldiers, laborers, or football players.
- water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- water cut — The water cut is the ratio of the water which is produced in a well compared to the volume of the total liquids produced.
- water dog — a dog trained to hunt in water
- water elm — planer tree.
- water gap — a transverse gap in a mountain ridge, cut by and giving passage to a stream or river.
- water gas — a toxic gaseous mixture consisting chiefly of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, prepared from steam and incandescent coke: used as an illuminant, fuel, and in organic synthesis.
- water gum — any of several Australian trees of the myrtle family, growing near water.
- water gun — water pistol.
- water hen — moorhen (def 1).
- water hog — a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
- water ice — ice formed by direct freezing of fresh or salt water, and not by compacting of snow.
- water key — a lever to drain saliva from a brass musical instrument, as the trombone.
- water oak — an oak, Quercus nigra, of the southern U.S., growing chiefly along streams and swamps.
- water pox — chickenpox.
- water rat — any of various rodents having aquatic habits.
- water-bus — vaporetto.
- water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
- waterbeds — Plural form of waterbed.
- waterbird — A bird that frequents water, especially one that habitually wades or swims in fresh water.
- waterbody — Any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
- waterbuck — any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
- waterbury — a city in W Connecticut.
- waterdogs — Plural form of waterdog.
- waterfall — a steep fall or flow of water in a watercourse from a height, as over a precipice; cascade.
- waterford — a county in Munster province, in the S Republic of Ireland. 710 sq. mi. (1840 sq. km).
- waterfowl — a water bird, especially a swimming bird.
- watergate — a White House political scandal that came to light during the 1972 presidential campaign, growing out of a break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate apartment-office complex in Washington, D.C., and, after congressional hearings, culminating in the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.