10-letter words containing w, e, l, a
- 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
- unavowable — to declare frankly or openly; own; acknowledge; confess; admit: He avowed himself an opponent of all alliances.
- unavowedly — in an unavowed or concealed manner
- unbewailed — not bewailed or grieved for; unlamented
- unchewable — not able to be chewed; tough
- unhallowed — not hallowed or consecrated; not regarded as holy or sacred: unhallowed ground.
- unknowable — not knowable; incapable of being known or understood.
- unswayable — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
- unviewable — capable of being viewed; visible.
- unwashable — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- unwearable — not suitable for wear or not able to be worn
- unwinnable — that can be won: a winnable war.
- unworkable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- 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.
- 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
- wage scale — a schedule of wages paid workers performing related tasks in an industry or shop.
- wage slave — a person who works for a wage, especially with total and immediate dependency on the income derived from such labor.
- 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.
- waldenburg — German name of Wałbrzych.
- 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.
- waldgraves — Plural form of waldgrave.
- wall plate — Also called raising plate. Building Trades. a horizontal member built into or laid along the top of a wall to support and distribute the pressure from joists, rafters, etc.
- 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
- wallflower — a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.
- wallpapers — Plural form of wallpaper.
- wallpepper — a small Eurasian crassulaceous plant, Sedum acre, having creeping stems, yellow flowers, and acrid-tasting leaves
- wallposter — (in China) a usually lengthy notice, complaint, personal opinion, etc., handwritten in large characters and hung on walls in cities, as a means of communication and for criticizing or attacking government policy or politicians.
- wanderlust — a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.
- wanrestful — uneasy or restless
- warble fly — any of several stout, woolly flies of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which produce warbles in cattle and other animals.
- warrenlike — Resembling a warren; mazelike, labyrinthine.
- waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
- waste well — absorbing well.
- wastefully — In a wasteful manner.
- wastelands — Plural form of wasteland.
- water flag — a European iris, Iris pseudacorus, naturalized throughout eastern North America, with blue-green leaves and violet-veined, yellow flowers and growing in moist places.
- water flea — any of various small crustaceans that move about in the water like fleas, as those of the genus Daphnia.
- water hole — a depression in the surface of the ground, containing water.
- water leaf — (in Greek architecture and sculpture) a motif of heart-shaped leaves having a conspicuous midrib.
- 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 loss — evapotranspiration (def 2).
- water mill — a mill with machinery driven by water.
- water mold — any of various aquatic fungi of the phylum Oomycota, free-living or parasitic in fish and other aquatic organisms.