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5-Letter Words Starting with W

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5-Letter Words Starting with W (16 words)

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5-Letter Words (16):

wades (9 points)

Gets cold feet (wordplay)

Crosses the stream, perhaps

Gets one's feet wet (wordplay)

W·4+A·1+D·2+E·1+S·1 = 9 pts

wadis (9 points)

African water beds (wordplay)

Driedup desert streams

Usually dry gullies of Africa

W·4+A·1+D·2+I·1+S·1 = 9 pts

wands (9 points)

Sticks around at a magic show (wordplay)

Hogwarts School musts

West with the South for the sorcerers

W·4+A·1+N·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

wards (9 points)

Might S sketch up in hospital (wordplay)

Urban voting districts

Artemas and Artemus

W·4+A·1+R·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

weeds (9 points)

Plot spoilers (wordplay)

Keeps a plot to the plan (wordplay)

Bed intruders (wordplay)

W·4+E·1+E·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

welds (9 points)

Carries a torch maybe

Carries a torch, maybe

Carries a torch perhaps

W·4+E·1+L·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

wends (9 points)

Pursues (one's way)

Goes on (one's way)

Proceeds on ones way

W·4+E·1+N·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

whids (12 points)

Whid

W·4+H·4+I·1+D·2+S·1 = 12 pts

wides (9 points)

Double big mobile homes

Some shoe sizes

Shoe designations

W·4+I·1+D·2+E·1+S·1 = 9 pts

wilds (9 points)

Beyond the boondocks

Sparsely inhabited tracts

Sparsely inhabited areas, with 'the'

W·4+I·1+L·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

winds (9 points)

Current events (wordplay)

Closes up - draughts

Flutes and clarinets

W·4+I·1+N·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

woads (9 points)

Dye-yielding mustard plants

Blue dye plants.

Blue-dye plants

W·4+O·1+A·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

wolds (9 points)

High treeless plains

High, treeless plains.

Hills of Yorkshire

W·4+O·1+L·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

woods (9 points)

5 of G - his tools (wordplay)

Errant golf shots destination perhaps

Errant golf shot's destination, perhaps

W·4+O·1+O·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

words (9 points)

Speaking parts (wordplay)

Music partner (wordplay)

What one has to say with them

W·4+O·1+R·1+D·2+S·1 = 9 pts

wynds (12 points)

Wynd

W·4+Y·4+N·1+D·2+S·1 = 12 pts

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Your search: your search in dictionary American. Results: 16.

Refine to W+: WA WB WC WD WE WF WG WH WI WJ WK WL WM WN WO WP WQ WR WS WT WU WV WW WX WY WZ

Starting with:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Ending with:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Containing:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Popular patterns: TH QU CH SH PH WH CK NG NK EE OO EA OU AI IE TION SION

By length:

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