10-letter words containing w, i, d, e, r, a
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- tidewaiter — a customs officer who checks goods upon a vessel's landing, to secure the payment of duties.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- trade wind — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- wage drift — the change in the amount by which actual earnings exceed negotiated earnings
- waiterhood — the state of being a waiter
- waldemar i — ("the Great") 1131–82, king of Denmark 1157–82.
- wanderings — Plural form of wandering.
- ward eight — a mixed drink containing whiskey, lemon juice, grenadine, and often soda water, served in a tall glass with crushed ice and sometimes garnished with an orange slice and a cherry.
- wardenship — The state of being a warden.
- warrandice — (legal) A form of warranty, in Scots law, in which a person conveying property was held liable for any outstanding claims on the property.
- warrantied — an act or an instance of warranting; assurance; authorization; warrant.
- water bird — an aquatic bird; a swimming or wading bird.
- water-laid — noting a rope laid left-handed from three or four plain-laid ropes, in the making of which water was used to wet the fibers instead of the more customary oil or tallow.
- waterdrive — (of an oil or gas reservoir) using water to force out the oil or gas
- watersider — a wharf labourer
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- wattlebird — any of several Australian honey eaters of the genus Anthochaera, most of which have fleshy wattles at the sides of the neck.
- weaverbird — any of numerous African and Asian finchlike birds of the family Ploceidae, noted for their elaborately woven nests and colonial habits.
- weighboard — a thin layer (e.g. shale or clay) between bands of thicker strata (e.g. limestone or sandstone)
- well-aired — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- whitebeard — an old man, especially one with a white or gray beard.
- 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.
- whitebread — any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour.
- whitecedar — (US) alternative spelling of white cedar.
- widespread — spread over or open, or occupying a wide space.
- widowmaker — Alternative form of widow-maker.
- wienerwald — a forested and wooded hill range in NE Lower Austria, W of Vienna: resorts.
- wild water — turbulent water in a river, esp as an area for navigating in a canoe as a sport
- wildcarded — (computing) Replaced or supplemented with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
- wildcatter — an oil prospector.
- wind shear — the rate at which wind velocity changes from point to point in a given direction.
- windbreaks — Plural form of windbreak.
- windjammer — (formerly) a merchant ship propelled by sails.
- wingspread — the distance between the most outward tips of the wings when they are as extended as possible.
- wire fraud — the crime of using interstate wire, television, or radio communications with the intent to defraud.
- wirehaired — having coarse, stiff, wirelike hair.
- wiretapped — Simple past tense and past participle of wiretap.
- withdrawed — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of withdraw.
- withdrawer — One who withdraws.
- wizardlike — Resembling a wizard or some aspect of one.