9-letter words containing w, e, b, a
- warp beam — a roller, located at the back of a loom, on which the warp ends are wound in preparation for weaving.
- washables — Plural form of washable.
- watchable — detectable; apparent.
- 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-bus — vaporetto.
- 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.
- wave band — band2 (def 9).
- wave base — the depth in a body of water at which the action of surface waves stops stirring the sediments
- wavebands — Plural form of waveband.
- weak verb — a regular verb
- wearables — Plural form of wearable.
- web frame — a deep transverse frame reinforcing the hull of a ship.
- web-based — of, relating to, or using the World Wide Web
- webcaster — A person or organization that transmits a webcast over the Internet.
- webmaster — a person who designs or maintains a website.
- weighable — Heavy enough to be weighed.
- wen jiabo — 1942- ; premier of China (2002- )
- west bank — an area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel: occupied in 1967 and subsequently claimed by Israel; formerly held by Jordan.
- westabout — in, to, or towards the west
- wet basis — A wet basis is a measure of the water in a solid, expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the wet solid.
- whaleback — Nautical. a cargo vessel having a hull with a convex deck. a deck or cover curving upward.
- whaleboat — a long, narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas: formerly used in whaling, now mainly for sea rescue.
- whalebone — an elastic, horny substance growing in place of teeth in the upper jaw of certain whales, and forming a series of thin, parallel plates on each side of the palate; baleen.
- wheatbird — A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
- wheelbase — the distance from the center of the front-wheel spindle to the center of the rear-wheel axle.
- whitbread — Fatima. born 1961, British javelin thrower: won gold at the World Championships (1987)
- whitebait — a young sprat or herring.
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whitebass — a freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the bass family Moronidae, native to North American lakes and rivers
- whitebeam — a European tree, Sorbus aria, of the rose family, having leathery leaves, showy, white flowers, and mealy, orange-red or scarlet fruit.
- wieldable — Capable of being wielded.
- wiesbaden — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- wild bean — groundnut (def 1).
- windbreak — a growth of trees, a structure of boards, or the like, serving as a shelter from the wind.
- wingbeats — Plural form of wingbeat.
- winnebago — a member of a North American Indian tribe speaking a Siouan language closely related to Assiniboin, Teton, and Mandan, formerly located in Green Bay, Wis., now living in Green Bay and NE Nebraska.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
- wool bale — a standard-sized jute, flax, etc, cubical container of compressed wool weighing over 100 kg when containing fleece or lamb's wool and weighing 204 kg when containing oddments
- wordbreak — the point at which a word is divided when it runs over from one line of print to the next
- worktable — a table with a work surface, often with drawers.
- worldbeat — a type of folk music combined with western mainstream influences
- woundable — Capable of being wounded; vulnerable.
- writeable — capable of being written or set down in writing.