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10-letter words containing w, e, i, l

  • towel ring — a circular hoop in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
  • tower-mill — a windmill of which only the cap rotates to face the sails into the wind.
  • townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.
  • twice-laid — made from strands of used rope.
  • twice-told — having been told before; related two times.
  • twinflower — either of two slender, creeping, evergreen, caprifoliaceous plants, Linnaea borealis, of Europe, or L. americana, of North America, having pink or purplish nodding flowers borne in pairs on threadlike stalks.
  • two-tailed — (of a significance test) concerned with the hypothesis that an observed value of a sampling statistic differs significantly from a given value, where an error in either direction is relevant: for instance, in testing the fairness of scales, an inspector will seek to exclude both overweight and underweight goods
  • unbewailed — not bewailed or grieved for; unlamented
  • unpillowed — having no pillow or pillows
  • unviewable — capable of being viewed; visible.
  • unwinnable — that can be won: a winnable war.
  • unwithheld — not withheld; given rather than held back
  • video wall — A video wall is a set of video screens that are connected together, so that each screen shows a part of the whole picture or so that the same picture is repeated on each screen.
  • viewlessly — in a viewless manner
  • w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
  • wage claim — the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives
  • wages bill — the total amount of money that a company or organization pays to its employees
  • wages slip — a small piece of paper with a printed record of a person's wages
  • waistlines — Plural form of waistline.
  • wait table — to serve food as a waiter or servant to people at a table
  • waitpeople — Plural form of waitperson.
  • waldemar i — ("the Great") 1131–82, king of Denmark 1157–82.
  • waldensian — a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.
  • warrenlike — Resembling a warren; mazelike, labyrinthine.
  • water lily — any of various aquatic plants of the genus Nymphaea, species of which have large, disklike, floating leaves and showy flowers, especially N. odorata, of America, or N. alba, of Europe. Compare water lily family.
  • water line — Nautical. the part of the outside of a ship's hull that is just at the water level.
  • water mill — a mill with machinery driven by water.
  • water pill — a diuretic pill.
  • water rail — an Old World rail, Rallus aquaticus, having olive-brown plumage marked with black and a long, red bill.
  • water-laid — noting a rope laid left-handed from three or four plain-laid ropes, in the making of which water was used to wet the fibers instead of the more customary oil or tallow.
  • waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
  • waterville — a city in SW Maine.
  • watervliet — a city in E New York, on the Hudson: oldest U.S. arsenal.
  • wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
  • waveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
  • weakwilled — Alternative spelling of weak-willed.
  • wealthiest — Superlative form of wealthy.
  • wearyingly — In a wearying way.
  • weaselling — (British) present participle of weasel.
  • weblogging — (computing) The design and editing of a weblog; blogging.
  • weedkiller — a herbicide.
  • weightless — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
  • weightloss — (uncountable) The loss of bodily weight.
  • welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
  • well up in — well acquainted with (a particular subject); knowledgeable about
  • well-aimed — to position or direct (a firearm, ball, arrow, rocket, etc.) so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.
  • well-aired — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • well-being — a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity; welfare: to influence the well-being of the nation and its people.
  • well-built — simple past tense and past participle of build.
  • well-doing — good conduct or action.
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