10-letter words containing w, r, u
- ward round — a regular visit to patients in hospital by medical staff for the purpose of making decisions concerning patient care
- warehoused — Simple past tense and past participle of warehouse.
- warehouser — warehouseman.
- warehouses — Plural form of warehouse.
- watchguard — a security chain or cord for a watch
- water arum — an aquatic arum plant, Calla palustris, of the North Temperate Zone, having heart-shaped leaves, tiny green flowers, and red berries.
- water butt — A water butt is a large barrel for collecting rain as it flows off a roof.
- water cure — hydropathy; hydrotherapy.
- water jump — any small body of water that a horse must jump over, as in a steeplechase.
- water plug — a fireplug; hydrant.
- waterbucks — Plural form of waterbuck.
- waterbuses — Plural form of waterbus.
- 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)
- waterquake — The event in which an earthquake happens underwater, usually in an ocean or lake.
- 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.
- wavenumber — (mathematics, physics) A measure of the number of waves in unit distance; inversely proportional to its wavelength.
- websurfing — Present participle of websurf.
- weisswurst — a variety of bratwurst in which the meat is cooked before being stuffed into the casing
- werejaguar — (fiction, mythology) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a jaguar.
- wertmuller — Lina, born 1928, Italian film director and screenwriter.
- wesermunde — former name of Bremerhaven.
- wheat rust — any of several diseases of wheat caused by rust fungi of the genus Puccinia.
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- whereunder — under which
- whereuntil — until which
- whip-round — When a group of people have a whip-round, money is collected from each person so that it can be used to buy something for all of them or for someone they all know.
- whirlabout — a whirling around in a circle.
- whisperous — whispery.
- white amur — grass carp
- white rust — Plant Pathology. a disease of plants, characterized by pustules of white spores on affected parts that become yellow and malformed, caused by fungi of the genus Albugo.
- whorehound — (US, vulgar, slang) Someone who often has sex with prostitutes.
- whorehouse — a house or apartment in which prostitutes are available for hire; house of prostitution; brothel.
- willow run — a suburban area W of Detroit, Michigan, near Ypsilanti: airport.
- wind surge — a wind-induced rise in the water level at the coast or the shore of an inland expanse of water. It has a definite frequency and if this is close to the tidal frequency serious flooding can result
- windburned — Suffering from windburn.
- windsucker — a horse afflicted with cribbing.
- windsurfed — Simple past tense and past participle of windsurf.
- windsurfer — A person who takes part in windsurfing.
- winterthur — a city in Zurich canton, in N Switzerland, NE of Zurich.
- wire brush — tool with steel bristles
- wire fraud — the crime of using interstate wire, television, or radio communications with the intent to defraud.
- wire gauge — a gauge calibrated for determining the diameter of wire.
- wire gauze — a gauzelike fabric woven of very fine wires.
- wire house — a brokerage firm with branch offices connected with their main office by a private system of telephone, telegraph, and teletype wires.
- wire-brush — to clean or remove with a wire brush.
- wire-gauge — a gauge calibrated for determining the diameter of wire.
- wirepuller — a person or thing that pulls wires.
- woman-hour — a woman honored by a group.
- wonderfull — Archaic spelling of wonderful.
- wondrously — wonderful; remarkable.