8-letter words containing w, e, t, r
- water ox — water buffalo.
- waterage — the transportation of cargo by means of ships, or the charges for such transportation
- waterbed — a bed having a liquid-filled rubber or plastic mattress in a rigid, often heated, waterproof frame, and providing a surface that conforms to the sleeper's body in any position.
- waterboy — Alternative spelling of water boy.
- waterbus — Alternative spelling of water bus.
- waterdog — any of several large salamanders, as a mudpuppy or hellbender.
- watereth — Archaic third-person singular form of water.
- waterhen — An aquatic rail, especially a moorhen or related bird.
- waterily — In a watery manner.
- watering — 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.
- waterish — somewhat, or tending to be, watery.
- waterjet — a stream of water forced out through a small aperture.
- waterlog — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- waterloo — a village in central Belgium, south of Brussels: Napoleon decisively defeated here on June 18, 1815.
- waterman — a person who manages or works on a boat; boatman.
- watermen — Plural form of waterman.
- waterpot — A pot or jug for holding water.
- waterpox — chickenpox
- waterski — Each of a pair of skis enabling the wearer to skim the surface of the water when towed by a motorboat.
- waterway — a river, canal, or other body of water serving as a route or way of travel or transport.
- wax tree — a Japanese anacardiaceous tree, Rhus succedanea, having white berries that yield wax
- wear out — the act of wearing; use, as of a garment: articles for winter wear; I've had a lot of wear out of this coat; I had to throw away the shirt after only three wears.
- wear-out — the act or fact of wearing out; a worn-out condition: wear-out at the knees of pants.
- weariest — Superlative form of weary.
- weathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weather.
- websters — Plural form of webster.
- weighter — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- weirdest — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
- weltered — Simple past tense and past participle of welter.
- westbury — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- westenra — Hayley (Dee). born 1987, New Zealand singer, known for the purity of her voice in many musical genres
- westered — (of heavenly bodies) to move or tend westward.
- westerly — moving, directed, or situated toward the west: the westerly end of the field.
- westerns — Plural form of western.
- westford — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- westport — a town in SW Connecticut.
- westward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west: a westward migration of farm workers.
- westwork — (in German Romanesque architecture) a monumental western front to a church, treated as a tower or towers containing an entrance and vestibule below and a chapel above.
- wet room — a type of water-proofed room with a drain in the floor often serving as an open-plan shower
- wethered — Simple past tense and past participle of wether.
- wetproof — waterproof.
- whatever — in any amount; to any extent: whatever merit the work has.
- wheatear — any of several small, chiefly Old World thrushes of the genus Oenanthe, having a distinctive white rump, especially O. oenanthe, of Eurasia and North America.
- whereout — out of which
- whipster — (informal, dated) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy.
- whistler — James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.
- whitaker — a male given name.
- whitener — a preparation for making something white, as a bleach, dye, or polish: a bottle of shoe whitener.
- whithers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whither.
- whitster — a person who whitens or bleaches clothes