9-letter words containing we
- wellbeing — a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity; welfare: to influence the well-being of the nation and its people.
- welldoing — good conduct or action.
- wellesley — Arthur, Wellington, 1st Duke of.
- wellheads — Plural form of wellhead.
- wellhouse — wellhead (def 2).
- wellknown — (nonstandard) Alternative form of well-known.
- wellpoint — a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area so that it can be pumped away, as to prevent an excavation from filling with ground water.
- wellywood — the film production business located in Wellington, New Zealand
- welsh cob — any of a breed of medium-sized riding horse, developed in Wales, with a thickset body and relatively short legs
- weltering — to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
- wen jiabo — 1942- ; premier of China (2002- )
- wenatchee — a city in central Washington.
- wenceslas — 1361–1419, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1378–1400; as Wenceslaus IV, king of Bohemia 1378–1419.
- wentworth — Thomas, 1st Earl of Strafford, Strafford, 1st Earl of.
- werehyena — A mythological or folkloric shapeshifter capable of assuming the shape of a hyena.
- werelions — Plural form of werelion.
- weretiger — (fiction, mythological) A creature of Southeast Asian myth; a shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a tiger.
- wergeland — Henrik Arnold. 1808–45, Norwegian poet and nationalist, remembered for his lyric and narrative verse
- wernerian — pertaining to or characteristic of the views or the classificatory system of Alfred Werner.
- wernerite — a variety of scapolite.
- werowance — (historical) A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland.
- west bank — an area in the Middle East, between the W bank of the Jordan River and the E frontier of Israel: occupied in 1967 and subsequently claimed by Israel; formerly held by Jordan.
- west bend — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- west goth — a Visigoth.
- west linn — a town in NW Oregon.
- west side — the western part of Manhattan Island, New York City: conventionally W of Fifth Avenue.
- westabout — in, to, or towards the west
- westbound — proceeding or headed west.
- westbrook — a city in SW Maine.
- westering — moving or shifting toward the west: the westering sun; a westering wind.
- westerlys — a town in SW Rhode Island.
- westerner — a native or inhabitant of the West, especially of the western U.S.
- westernly — (obsolete) In or towards the west. (16th-19th c.).
- westfalen — German name of Westphalia.
- westfield — a city in S Massachusetts.
- westmeath — a county in Leinster in the N central Republic of Ireland. 681 sq. mi. (1765 sq. km). County seat: Mullingar.
- westmount — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- westwards — Westward.
- wet basis — A wet basis is a measure of the water in a solid, expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the wet solid.
- wet dream — nocturnal emission.
- wet nurse — woman hired to breast-feeds another's child
- wet shave — a shave in which lather and a razor are used, as opposed to an electric shaver
- wet steam — steam, usually low-pressure, that contains water droplets in suspension
- wet-nurse — to act as a wet nurse to (an infant).
- wethering — Present participle of wether.
- whipsawed — subjected to a double loss, as when an investor has bought a stock at a high price soon before it declines and then, in order to make good the loss, sells it short before it advances.
- whit week — Whitsuntide.
- whiteweed — Oxeye daisy.
- whittawer — a person who converts skins into white leather; a tawer
- widowered — a man who has lost his spouse by death and has not remarried.