10-letter words containing w, e, a
- bake-wares — heat-resistant dishes, as of glass or pottery, in which food may be baked; ovenware.
- ballflower — a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower
- bare owner — a person who has bare ownership of a property
- barred owl — a large, North American owl (Strix varia) with bars of brown feathers across the breast
- barrenwort — a herbaceous European berberidaceous plant, Epimedium alpinum, having red-and-yellow star-shaped flowers
- basaltware — hard fine-grained black stoneware, made in Europe, esp in England, in the late 18th century
- basic wage — a person's wage excluding overtime, bonuses, etc
- basketwork — work that is interlaced or woven like a basket; wickerwork
- bath towel — A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.
- bath water — Your bath water is the water in which you sit or lie when you have a bath.
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- bay wreath — (In Greek and Roman times) a wreath of laurel leaves, worn by a victor
- beadswoman — a female inhabitant of a beadhouse
- beam trawl — a trawl net whose lateral spread during trawling is maintained by a beam across its mouth.
- bear's-paw — a clam of the genus Hippopus, having a ridged, white shell with purplish-red spots.
- beard worm — pogonophoran.
- bedeswoman — beadswoman
- bedwarmers — Plural form of bedwarmer.
- beggarweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genus Desmodium, esp D. purpureum of the Caribbean, grown in the southern US as forage plants and to improve the soil
- belly-wash — any barely drinkable liquid or beverage, as inferior soda, beer, coffee, or soup.
- beta waves — a pattern of high-frequency brain waves (beta waves) observed in normal persons upon sensory stimulation, especially with light, or when they are engaging in purposeful mental activity.
- bide a wee — to stay a little
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- blackwater — a stream stained dark with peat
- blast wave — a violent propagating disturbance, produced by an explosion in air, that consists of an abrupt rise in pressure followed by a drop in pressure to or below atmospheric pressure.
- blaze away — to fire a gun rapidly a number of times
- blue wavey — See under wavey.
- blue whale — the largest mammal: a widely distributed bluish-grey whalebone whale, Sibbaldus (or Balaenoptera) musculus, closely related and similar to the rorquals: family Balaenopteridae
- blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
- bowser bag — doggy bag.
- brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
- break away — If you break away from someone who is trying to hold you or catch you, you free yourself and run away.
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
- breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- brewmaster — a person who is in charge of brewing beer in a brewery
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- browbeaten — intimidated
- browbeater — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.