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Words starting with writ

4 letter words starting with writ

  • writ — Law. a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act. (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
  • writ large — If you say that something is writ large, you mean that it is very obvious.
  • writ of assistance — a writ issued by a superior colonial court authorizing officers of the British crown to summon aid and enter and search any premises.
  • writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement
  • writ of certiorari — certiorari.

5 letter words starting with writ

  • write — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
  • writh — Eye dialect of writhe.
  • writs — Plural form of writ.
  • write back — send a written or typed reply
  • write cover — If an insurance company writes cover, it underwrites a risk or insures someone.

6 letter words starting with writ

  • writed — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of write.
  • writer — a person engaged in writing books, articles, stories, etc., especially as an occupation or profession; an author or journalist.
  • writes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of write.
  • writhe — to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.
  • writer to the signet — (in Scotland) a member of an ancient society of solicitors, now having the exclusive privilege of preparing crown writs

7 letter words starting with writ

  • writers — Plural form of writer.
  • writeth — Archaic third-person singular form of write.
  • writeup — Alternative spelling of write-up.
  • writhed — to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.
  • writhen — twisted.

8 letter words starting with writ

  • writable — capable of being written or set down in writing.
  • write-in — a candidate or vote for a candidate not listed on the printed ballot but written onto it by the voter: Write-ins may swing the election.
  • write-up — a written description or account, as in a newspaper or magazine: The play got a terrible write-up.
  • writeoff — Alternative spelling of write-off.
  • writerly — characteristic or typical of an author, especially a professional one.

9 letter words starting with writ

  • writative — inclined to write a lot
  • write-off — a cancellation from the accounts as a loss.
  • writeable — capable of being written or set down in writing.
  • writedown — (accounting) An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or entering an asset and its value; a reduction of an asset, written down or otherwise recorded as such.
  • writeress — a female writer; authoress

10 letter words starting with writ

  • write-down — a reduction of the entered value of an asset account.
  • writedowns — Plural form of writedown.
  • writership — the position of a writer in the East India Company
  • writhingly — in a writhing manner
  • write-once read-many — (storage)   (WORM) Any type of storage medium to which data can be written to only a single time, but can be read from any number of times. Typically this is an optical disk whose surface is permanently etched using a laser in order to record information. WORM media have a significantly longer shelf life than magnetic media and thus are used when data must be preserved for a long time.

12 letter words starting with writ

  • writeacourse — (language)   A CAI language for IBM 360.

13 letter words starting with writ

  • write-protect — to protect (a recordable disk) from accidental erasure or change; to mark (a file or disk) so that its contents cannot be modified or deleted.
  • write-protect notch — a cut-out on a floppy disk that determines whether a disk is writable

15 letter words starting with writ

  • write-protected — (of a computer disk) having been protected from accidental writing or erasure

On this page, we collect all words starting with WRIT. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 76 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that beginning with WRIT. that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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