12-letter words starting with wa
- water coning — Water coning is when flow in a well changes as the oil-water interface forms into a bell shape.
- water cooler — a container for holding drinking water that is cooled and drawn off by a faucet or spigot.
- water filter — device for removing impurities from water
- water hammer — the concussion and accompanying noise that result when a volume of water moving in a pipe suddenly stops or loses momentum.
- water heater — a household appliance consisting of a gas or electric heating unit under a tank in which water is heated and stored.
- water jacket — a water-filled envelope or container surrounding a machine, engine, or part for cooling purposes, esp the casing around the cylinder block of a pump or internal-combustion engine
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- water meadow — a meadow kept fertile by flooding.
- water pepper — a widely distributed annual plant, Polygonum hydropiper, of marshes and bogs, characterized by acrid, peppery-tasting leaves.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- water slater — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
- water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- water sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
- water sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
- water supply — the supply of purified water available to a community.
- water system — a river and all its branches.
- water target — water shield (def 1).
- water thrush — either of two North American warblers, Seirus noveboracensis or S. motacilla, usually living near streams.
- water turkey — anhinga.
- water vapour — steam
- water willow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Justicia, of the acanthus family, growing in water or wet places, especially J. americana, of North America, having clusters of pale violet to white flowers.
- water worker — a person employed in the water industry
- water-budget — (formerly) a leather bag suspended at each end of a pole or yoke and used for carrying water.
- water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
- water-harden — to quench (steel) in water.
- water-jacket — to surround or fit with a water jacket.
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- waterboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of waterboard.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- watered-down — made weaker or less effective from or as from dilution with water: a watered-down cocktail; Spectators saw a watered-down version of the famous opera.
- waterfalling — Present participle of waterfall.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- watering can — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
- watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
- waterishness — the state of being waterish
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- watermarking — Present participle of watermark.
- waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
- waterproofer — One who, or that which, makes waterproof.
- watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
- watteau back — a loose, full back of a woman's gown, formed by wide box pleats hanging from a high shoulder yoke and extending to the hem in an unbroken line.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- watts-dunton — (Walter) Theodore (Walter Theodore Watts) 1832–1914, English poet, novelist, and critic.