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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.
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