10-letter words containing w, e, l, r, s
- steelworks — an establishment where steel is made and often manufactured into girders, rails, etc.
- sternwheel — a paddle wheel at the stern of a vessel.
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- super bowl — the annual championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.
- swarm cell — the amebalike germinated spore cell of myxomycetes.
- sweet roll — a roll made of sweet dough, often containing spices, raisins, nuts, candied fruit, etc., and sometimes iced on top.
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swerveless — tending not to swerve
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- swiveltree — swingletree.
- sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
- waldgraves — Plural form of waldgrave.
- wallpapers — Plural form of wallpaper.
- 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
- water loss — evapotranspiration (def 2).
- water seal — a small amount of water contained in the trap of a drain to prevent the passage of foul smells
- waterfalls — Plural form of waterfall.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- wellspring — the head or source of a spring, stream, river, etc.; fountainhead.
- wellwisher — Alternative spelling of well-wisher.
- welsh harp — a type of harp in which the strings are arranged in three rows, used esp for the accompaniment of singing, improvisation on folk tunes, etc
- werewolves — (in folklore and superstition) a human being who has changed into a wolf, or is capable of assuming the form of a wolf, while retaining human intelligence.
- westerlies — moving, directed, or situated toward the west: the westerly end of the field.
- westwardly — having a westward direction or situation: the westwardly migration of the 1850s.
- wheelhorse — a person who works steadily or hard
- whole rest — a rest equivalent in duration to a whole note.
- wholesaler — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wholesomer — Comparative form of wholesome.
- wild horse — horse which is untamed
- wilderness — a wooded area in NE Virginia: several battles fought here in 1864 between armies of Grant and Lee.
- winlestrae — windlestraw.
- winterless — Without a winter.
- wire glass — a pane or sheet of glass having a network of wire embedded within it as a reinforcement.
- wirelesses — Plural form of wireless.
- wirelessly — having no wire.
- wolverines — Plural form of wolverine.
- wonderless — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- wool store — a building where bales of wool are stored and made available to prospective buyers for inspection
- woolsorter — A farmworker responsible for sorting wool into coarser and finer grades.
- wordlessly — In a wordless manner.
- work rules — a set of rules, usually established by one or more unions in an agreement with management, specifying the tasks to be done by each employee.
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- worktables — Plural form of worktable.
- worldlines — Plural form of worldline.
- worldscale — the standard scale of freight rates for oil tankers
- worldviews — Plural form of worldview.