These are the meanings of the letters WAIREPO when you unscramble them.
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Opera (n.)
A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompaniment, preludes, and interludes, together with appropriate costumes, scenery, and action; a lyric drama.
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Opera (n.)
The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.
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Opera (n.)
The house where operas are exhibited.
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Opera (pl. )
of Opus
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Power (n.)
Same as Poor, the fish.
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Power (n.)
Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
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Power (n.)
Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
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Power (n.)
Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
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Power (n.)
The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
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Power (n.)
The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
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Power (n.)
A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
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Power (n.)
A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
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Power (n.)
The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
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Power (n.)
A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
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Power (n.)
Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
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Power (n.)
A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
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Power (n.)
The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
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Power (n.)
Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.
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Power (n.)
The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.
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Power (n.)
An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
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Power (n.)
Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
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Wiper (n.)
One who, or that which, wipes.
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Wiper (n.)
Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.
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Wiper (n.)
A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.
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Wiper (n.)
A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.