10-letter words containing w, e, s, l, a
- wavelessly — (of water) Without being disturbed by waves; tranquilly.
- wealthiest — Superlative form of wealthy.
- weaponless — Lacking a weapon.
- weasel out — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
- weaselling — (British) present participle of weasel.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- 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
- welshwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.
- wenceslaus — 1361–1419, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1378–1400; as Wenceslaus IV, king of Bohemia 1378–1419.
- west allis — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- westwardly — having a westward direction or situation: the westwardly migration of the 1850s.
- whalebacks — Plural form of whaleback.
- whaleboats — Plural form of whaleboat.
- whalebones — Plural form of whalebone.
- wheelbases — Plural form of wheelbase.
- whiplashes — Plural form of whiplash.
- white lias — a type of rock composed of pale-coloured limestones and marls
- white sale — a sale of sheets, pillowcases, and other white goods.
- whitewalls — Plural form of whitewall.
- wholesaled — Simple past tense and past participle of wholesale.
- wholesaler — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wholesales — Plural form of wholesale.
- wholescale — Wholesale (extensive).
- wiesenthal — Simon, 1908–2005, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals.
- wild beast — savage animal
- wild senna — a subshrubby senna, Cassia marilandica, of the eastern U.S., having yellow flowers.
- willemstad — the main island of the Netherlands Antilles, off the NW coast of Venezuela. 173 sq. mi. (448 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
- wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- windlassed — Simple past tense and past participle of windlass.
- windlasses — (nautical) Plural form of windlass.
- wine glass — stemmed glass drinking vessel
- winlestrae — windlestraw.
- winstanley — Gerrard. ?1609–60, English radical; leader of the Diggers (1649–50) and author of the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652)
- wire glass — a pane or sheet of glass having a network of wire embedded within it as a reinforcement.
- wolfsbanes — Plural form of wolfsbane.
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- worktables — Plural form of worktable.
- worldscale — the standard scale of freight rates for oil tankers
- yellow sea — an arm of the Pacific N of the East China Sea, between China and Korea.