10-letter words containing w, s, r
- wastepaper — paper thrown away as useless.
- wastewater — water that has been used in washing, flushing, manufacturing, etc.; sewage.
- watchstrap — fabric strip on a wearable timepiece
- watchwords — Plural form of watchword.
- water loss — evapotranspiration (def 2).
- water mass — a large body of oceanic water usually identified by a well-defined relationship between temperature and salinity or chemical content: usually a mixture of two or more such bodies, each having a specified temperature and salinity
- water oats — wild rice.
- water seal — a small amount of water contained in the trap of a drain to prevent the passage of foul smells
- water sign — any of the three astrological signs, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, that are grouped together because of the shared attributes of sensitivity and emotionalism.
- water-fast — (of a color or dye) resistant to the effects caused by water; not changed or faded by the action of water.
- water-sick — (of soil) unproductive due to excessive watering or salt residues from irrigation.
- water-soak — to soak or saturate with water.
- waterbucks — Plural form of waterbuck.
- waterbuses — Plural form of waterbus.
- watercress — a cress, Nasturtium officinale, of the mustard family, usually growing in clear, running streams and having pungent leaves.
- waterfalls — Plural form of waterfall.
- 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)
- wateriness — the state or condition of being watery or diluted.
- watermarks — Plural form of watermark.
- watersaver — a person, device, or practice that reduces water consumption, as during a drought.
- waterscape — a picture or view of the sea or other body of water.
- watersheds — Plural form of watershed.
- watersider — a wharf labourer
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- watersmeet — the point where two streams meet
- watersport — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- 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.
- waterweeds — Plural form of waterweed.
- waterworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a complete system of reservoirs, pipelines, conduits, etc., by which water is collected, purified, stored, and pumped to urban users.
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- wavemeters — Plural form of wavemeter.
- waynesboro — a city in N Virginia.
- waziristan — a mountainous region in NW Pakistan.
- weaker sex — the female sex; women (usually used facetiously): my life as a member of the weaker sex.
- weaponeers — Plural form of weaponeer.
- web server — a remote computer or a computer program that delivers Web pages to a user's computer, or a client, upon request from a web browser.
- webmasters — Plural form of webmaster.
- webmeister — (computing, informal) A webmaster.
- websterian — pertaining to or characteristic of Daniel Webster, his political theories, or his oratory.
- websterite — aluminite.
- websurfing — Present participle of websurf.
- weekenders — Plural form of weekender.
- weiss beer — a light-colored, highly effervescent beer prepared largely from malted wheat.
- weisswurst — a variety of bratwurst in which the meat is cooked before being stuffed into the casing
- weizsacker — Carl Friedrich von [kahrl free-drikh fuh n] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- wellspring — the head or source of a spring, stream, river, etc.; fountainhead.
- wellwisher — Alternative spelling of well-wisher.
- 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