10-letter words containing w, e, t, h
- water bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
- water hole — a depression in the surface of the ground, containing water.
- water-bath — a system for the control of temperature in which a vessel containing the material to be heated is set into or over one containing water and receiving the heat directly.
- water-inch — the quantity of water (approx. 500 cubic feet) discharged in 24 hours through a circular opening of one inch diameter leading from a reservoir in which the water is constantly only high enough to cover the orifice.
- 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)
- watersheds — Plural form of watershed.
- watertight — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- waterwheel — a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
- wavelength — Physics. the distance, measured in the direction of propagation of a wave, between two successive points in the wave that are characterized by the same phase of oscillation.
- wealth tax — a tax on personal property; capital levy
- wealthiest — Superlative form of wealthy.
- weathering — the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
- weatherize — to make (a house or other building) secure against cold or stormy weather, as by adding insulation, siding, and storm windows.
- weatherman — a person who forecasts and reports the weather; meteorologist.
- weathermen — Plural form of weatherman.
- weeknights — Plural form of weeknight.
- weight man — a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
- weightiest — Superlative form of weighty.
- weightings — Plural form of weighting.
- 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.
- weightroom — an exercise room with weightlifting equipment.
- west haven — a town in S Connecticut, near New Haven.
- westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wetterhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 12,149 feet (3715 meters).
- whaleboats — Plural form of whaleboat.
- what goes? — what's happening?
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- what then? — what would happen in that case?
- whatsaname — Any object whose name one does not know or cannot remember.
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).
- wheat beer — any of various beers brewed using a mixture of wheat malt and barley malt
- wheat cake — a pancake made of wheat flour.
- wheat germ — the embryo or nucleus of the wheat kernel, used in or on foods as a concentrated source of vitamins.
- wheat pool — (in Western Canada) a cereal farmers' cooperative
- wheat rust — any of several diseases of wheat caused by rust fungi of the genus Puccinia.
- wheatfield — A wheat field; a field of wheat; a plot of land planted with wheat.
- wheatgrass — any of several wheatlike grasses of the genus Agropyron, grown for forage in the western U.S.
- wheatstone — Sir Charles, 1802–75, English physicist and inventor.
- wheatworms — Plural form of wheatworm.
- wheel trim — metallic decorative trim over or around the wheels of a motor vehicle
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- whereafter — after which
- whereuntil — until which
- whethering — (obsolete) The retention of the afterbirth in cows.
- whether…or — if on the one hand…or even if on the other hand
- whetstones — Plural form of whetstone.
- whewellite — a white or colorless mineral of organic origin, calcium oxalate monohydrate, Ca(C 2 O 4)⋅H 2 O, one of the main crystalline components of kidney stones and urinary precipitates; also found in coal deposits.
- whippeting — the sport of racing whippets
- whiptailed — having a long slender tail