9-letter words starting with w
- washerman — a man who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundryman.
- washermen — Plural form of washerman.
- washhouse — A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
- washiness — the state or quality of being washy.
- washrooms — Plural form of washroom.
- washstand — a piece of furniture holding a basin, pitcher, etc., for use in washing one's hands and face.
- washwoman — washerwoman.
- waspishly — In a waspish manner.
- wassailed — Simple past tense and past participle of wassail.
- wassailer — One who wassails.
- wassailry — revelry
- wasserman — (obsolete) A mythical sea-monster, being part-man, and thought to destroy ships.
- wasteland — land that is uncultivated or barren.
- wasteless — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- wasteness — the state of lying barren or being waste
- wasterful — Lb obsolete wasteful.
- wasteweir — A weir that allows the escape of excess water from a canal or reservoir.
- wastingly — In a way that causes wastage; wastefully.
- watch cap — U.S. Navy. a dark-blue, knitted woolen cap with a turned-up cuff worn by enlisted personnel on duty in cold weather.
- watch for — be vigilant for, careful of
- watch out — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- watchable — detectable; apparent.
- watchband — a leather, metal, fabric, or plastic bracelet or strap attached to a wrist watch to hold it on the wrist.
- watchcase — the case or outer covering for the works of a watch.
- watchless — not watchful or alert; lacking in vigilance: an irresponsible and watchless sentry.
- watchlist — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
- watchouts — the act of looking out for or anticipating something; lookout: Keep a watchout for dishonest behavior.
- watchword — a word or short phrase to be communicated, on challenge, to a sentinel or guard; password or countersign.
- water ash — hoptree.
- water bag — a bag, sometimes made of skin, leather, etc, but in Australia usually canvas, for holding, carrying, and keeping water cool
- water bed — 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.
- water boy — a person who carries a canteen or bucket of drinking water to those too occupied to fetch it, as to soldiers, laborers, or football players.
- water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- water cut — The water cut is the ratio of the water which is produced in a well compared to the volume of the total liquids produced.
- water dog — a dog trained to hunt in water
- water elm — planer tree.
- water gap — a transverse gap in a mountain ridge, cut by and giving passage to a stream or river.
- water gas — a toxic gaseous mixture consisting chiefly of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, prepared from steam and incandescent coke: used as an illuminant, fuel, and in organic synthesis.
- water gum — any of several Australian trees of the myrtle family, growing near water.
- water gun — water pistol.
- water hen — moorhen (def 1).
- water hog — a person who uses water selfishly or irresponsibly, esp during a water shortage
- water ice — ice formed by direct freezing of fresh or salt water, and not by compacting of snow.
- water key — a lever to drain saliva from a brass musical instrument, as the trombone.
- water oak — an oak, Quercus nigra, of the southern U.S., growing chiefly along streams and swamps.
- water pox — chickenpox.
- water rat — any of various rodents having aquatic habits.
- water-bus — vaporetto.
- water-ski — to plane over water on water skis or a water ski by grasping a towing rope pulled by a speedboat.
- waterbeds — Plural form of waterbed.