wells

IPA: wˈɛɫz

Root Word: Wells

An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a well or a spring.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A small cathedral city in Somerset, England.
A small town in Norfolk, England, officially Wells-next-the-Sea.
A town in British Columbia, Canada.
A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Indiana; named for founder James Oscar Wells.
An unincorporated community in Kansas.
A town in Maine; named for the city in England.
A city in Minnesota; named for J. W. Wells, father-in-law of Canadian-American Minnesota politician Clark W. Thompson.
An unincorporated community in Mississippi.
A city in Elko County, Nevada.
A town in New York; named for land agent Joshua Wells.
A town in Texas; named for railroad engineer Maj. E. H. Wells.
A town in Vermont.
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
An unincorporated community in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin; named for early settler James Wells.

Examples of "wells" in Sentences

Jim Cardegee awoke, choking, bewildered, staring down the twin wells of steel.
Rike believes that rust from steel in old, abandoned oil and gas wells is not particularly dangerous.
A shut in wells also represent a total loss for oil companies who get nothing for their expenditures.
Brunette, olive-skinned, oval-faced, her hair was blue-black with its blackness and her eyes were twin wells of black.
Injected into these wells is a toxic mix of 245 chemicals shown by epidemiologists to cause rare cancers, infertility, brain damage, autism, and other neurological disorders.
All Arab-speaking people wish to count neither more nor less than seven wells here, and so create the name _Seba_; but even in this way the etymology would not hold good, for the term _seven wells_ would be _Seba
The history of many of the wells is as follows: -- When oil is entered the gas begins to raise it up over the top of the boring, increasing gradually in force until it projects it into the air often to a height of 40 ft. or 50 ft.; then alternately diminishing and increasing in force at regular intervals, but without any cessation in the flow for a long time.