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10-letter words containing w, e, b, r

  • spider web — the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.
  • strawberry — the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.
  • super bowl — the annual championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.
  • swedenborg — Emanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; Swedish e-mah-noo-uh l] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; Swedish ɛˈmɑ nu əl/ (Show IPA), (Emanuel Swedberg) 1688–1772, Swedish scientist, philosopher, and mystic.
  • sweetbread — Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
  • sweetbrier — a rose, Rosa eglanteria, of Europe and central Asia, having a tall stem, stout, hooked prickles often mixed with bristles, and single, pink flowers.
  • swinglebar — a whiffletree.
  • sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
  • sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
  • tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
  • the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
  • thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
  • timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
  • tower bolt — barrel bolt.
  • trowbridge — a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Wiltshire: woollen manufacturing. Pop: 34 401 (2001)
  • twice-born — Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.
  • twig borer — any of several beetles, beetle larvae, or moth larvae that bore into the twigs of plants.
  • two-bagger — two-base hit.
  • unborrowed — not borrowed
  • unwearable — not suitable for wear or not able to be worn
  • unworkable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  • wabiserver — (operating system, tool)   An addition to Wabi which allows the Microsoft Windows application to run on a server, e.g. a powerful Intel-based computer, with users accessing it from their desktop which can be a cheap computer such as an X terminal.
  • waferboard — a structural material made from wood wafers of controlled thickness and length bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure.
  • wake-robin — the cuckoopint.
  • waldenburg — German name of Wałbrzych.
  • wallenberg — Raoul (raʊl). 1912–?, Swedish diplomat, who helped (1944–45) thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape from the Nazis. After his arrest (1945) by the Soviets nothing is certainly known of him; despite claims that he is still alive he is presumed to have died in prison
  • war bonnet — an American Indian headdress consisting of a headband with a tail of ornamental feathers.
  • warble fly — any of several stout, woolly flies of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which produce warbles in cattle and other animals.
  • water back — a reservoir or arrangement of tubing at the back of certain stoves or fireplaces for containing water to be heated by the fire.
  • water bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
  • water bear — a tardigrade.
  • water bird — an aquatic bird; a swimming or wading bird.
  • water boat — a vessel for supplying ships with fresh water.
  • water bomb — a bag filled with water and mischievously dropped from a height upon a passerby below.
  • water butt — A water butt is a large barrel for collecting rain as it flows off a roof.
  • water-bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
  • waterboard — Subject (someone) to the process of waterboarding.
  • waterborne — floating or moving on water; supported by water: The ship was waterborne ten months after the keel was laid.
  • waterbrain — gid, in sheep.
  • waterbucks — Plural form of waterbuck.
  • waterbuses — Plural form of waterbus.
  • wattlebark — a tanning substance obtained from black wattle tree bark
  • wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
  • wavenumber — (mathematics, physics) A measure of the number of waves in unit distance; inversely proportional to its wavelength.
  • waynesboro — a city in N Virginia.
  • weaverbird — any of numerous African and Asian finchlike birds of the family Ploceidae, noted for their elaborately woven nests and colonial habits.
  • web editor — software for creating internet content
  • web member — any of the structural members of a truss between the chords.
  • web server — a remote computer or a computer program that delivers Web pages to a user's computer, or a client, upon request from a web browser.
  • webcrawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
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