Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 7 compound words that contain wastes. The most common are listed below. Open wastes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- Hazardous Wastes
- green wastesplural of green waste: Unwanted vegetation or other plant-origin waste, able to be composted.
- nuclear wastesplural of nuclear waste: The more or less radioactive waste produced by nuclear reactors and others.
- residual wastesplural of residual waste: Non-hazardous, non-recyclable waste; waste that does not fit into any specific category
- time-wastesplural of time-waste: The wasting of time.
- toxic wastesplural of toxic waste: Any waste that can cause death or injury to living creatures, especially poisonous chemical compounds.
- voluntary wastesplural of voluntary waste: Any structural change made to an estate in land that intentionally or negligently causes harm to the estate or depletes its resources, unless this depletion is a continuation of a pre-existing use.
- wastes awaythird-person singular simple present indicative of waste away: To lose energy or become weak and feeble.
- wastes breaththird-person singular simple present indicative of waste breath: To speak in a manner which is needless or futile; in discussion or argument to make points which are not appreciated or heeded.
- wastes timethird-person singular simple present indicative of waste time: To allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner.
- agro-wastesplural of agro-waste: agricultural waste.
- wastes of oxygenplural of waste of oxygen: A worthless person.
- wastes of skinplural of waste of skin: A worthless person.
- wastes of spaceplural of waste of space: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see waste, of, space.
- wastes of timeplural of waste of time: A pointless or unproductive task.
Compound words 7
- biowastesplural of biowaste: waste of a biological nature
- hazwastesplural of hazwaste: Hazardous waste.
- outwastesthird-person singular simple present indicative of outwaste: To waste entirely.
- radiowastesplural of radiowaste: radioactive waste
- radwastesplural of radwaste: Radioactive waste.
- forwastesthird-person singular simple present indicative of forwaste: To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
- miltwastesplural of miltwaste: Any of species (Asplenium ceterach) of small European ferns formerly used in medicine.