10-letter words containing w, e, r, o, a
- 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 down — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- water hole — a depression in the surface of the ground, containing water.
- water loss — evapotranspiration (def 2).
- water mold — any of various aquatic fungi of the phylum Oomycota, free-living or parasitic in fish and other aquatic organisms.
- water oats — wild rice.
- water polo — an aquatic game played by two teams of seven swimmers each, the object being to score goals by pushing, carrying, or passing an inflated ball and tossing it into the opponent's goal, defended by a goalkeeper.
- water vole — A water vole is a small furry animal that can swim. Water voles live in holes in the banks of rivers.
- water-cool — to cool by means of water, especially by water circulating in pipes or a water jacket, as an engine or machine gun.
- water-soak — to soak or saturate with water.
- 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.
- watercolor — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
- waterfront — land on the edge of a body of water.
- waterhouse — Alfred. 1830–1905, British architect; a leader of the Gothic Revival. His buildings include Manchester Town Hall (1868) and the Natural History Museum, London (1881)
- watermelon — the large, roundish or elongated fruit of a trailing vine, Citrullus lanata, of the gourd family, having a hard, green rind and a sweet, juicy, usually pink or red pulp.
- waterpower — Alternative form of water power.
- waterproof — impervious to water.
- watersport — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- waterspout — Also called rainspout. a pipe running down the side of a house or other building to carry away water from the gutter of the roof.
- waterworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a complete system of reservoirs, pipelines, conduits, etc., by which water is collected, purified, stored, and pumped to urban users.
- wattlework — a simple covering for a human dwelling constructed from interwoven branches and leaved twigs
- wave front — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- wave power — power extracted from the motion of sea waves at the coast
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- waynesboro — a city in N Virginia.
- weak force — a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta-decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles.
- weaponeers — Plural form of weaponeer.
- weighboard — a thin layer (e.g. shale or clay) between bands of thicker strata (e.g. limestone or sandstone)
- west fargo — a city in SE North Dakota: suburb of Fargo.
- whaikorero — the art of formal speech-making
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).
- wheatworms — Plural form of wheatworm.
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- whiggamore — one of a group of 17th-century Scottish insurgents
- whiteboard — a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard.
- wholegrain — A cereal grain that contains cereal germ, endosperm, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.
- wholesaler — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- widowmaker — Alternative form of widow-maker.
- willowware — china using the willow pattern.
- wolframate — tungstate.
- wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
- woman-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on a standard number of woman-days in a year of work.
- womanizers — Plural form of womanizer.
- womanpower — potential or actual power from the endeavors of women: the utilization of womanpower during a great national emergency.
- womenswear — women's wear.
- wondergoal — (sport) An excellent goal.