9-letter words containing w, e, a, t
- dew plant — sundew.
- dewatered — Simple past tense and past participle of dewater.
- dewaterer — a person who or a thing which dewaters
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- down east — New England.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- downstage — at or toward the front of the stage.
- downstate — the southern part of a U.S. state.
- draw-gate — the valve that controls a sluice
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- earthward — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
- earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
- east-west — occurring between the East and the West, especially, formerly, occurring between the Soviet Union and the U.S.: East-West trade; East-West relations.
- eastwards — Also, eastwards. toward the east.
- eatontown — a borough in E central New Jersey.
- enswathed — Simple past tense and past participle of enswathe.
- entryways — Plural form of entryway.
- enwreathe — Surround or envelop (something).
- feedwater — water to be supplied to a boiler from a tank or condenser for conversion into steam.
- firewater — alcoholic drink; liquor.
- fizzwater — effervescent water; soda water.
- flatwares — utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons, used at the table for serving and eating food.
- footwears — Plural form of footwear.
- goldwater — Barry Morris, 1909–1998, U.S. politician: U.S senator 1953–64 and 1968–87.
- graywater — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
- great war — the war fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, between the Central Powers and the Allies, beginning on July 28, 1914, and ending on November 11, 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers. Abbreviation: WWI.
- greywater — Alternative spelling of gray water.
- guiltware — /gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money. 2. Shareware that works.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- hansetown — Hansa (def 3).
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- headwater — A tributary stream of a river close to or forming part of its source.
- heartwood — the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
- heartworm — a parasitic nematode, Dirofilaria immitis, transmitted by mosquito and invading the heart and pulmonary arteries of dogs, wolves, and foxes throughout its range in tropical, subtropical and, more recently, temperate regions around the world.
- heat wave — an air mass of high temperature covering an extended area and moving relatively slowly.
- heatwaves — Plural form of heatwave.
- hot water — trouble; a predicament: His skipping classes will get him into real hot water when exam time comes.
- ice water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- ice-water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- in a stew — agitated, flustered
- inwreathe — enwreathe.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jerkwater — Informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town.
- kittiwake — either of two small, pearl-gray gulls of the genus Rissa, the black-legged R. tridactyla of the North Atlantic and the red-legged and red-billed R. brevirostris, of the Bering Sea, both nesting on narrow cliff ledges and having a rudimentary hind toe.