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Look up wet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wet could refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • The condition of being liquid or being covered in a liquid.
  • The wets, moderate members of the British Conservative Party.
  • Phencyclidine (PCP), a dissociative anesthetic.
  • Wet, a magazine about "gourmet bathing" from the late 1970s.
  • Wet, a type of stew used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.
  • an area that allows the sale of alcohol, or an opponent of Prohibition (opposite of dry)
  • Wet (Video Game) An upcoming video game developed and published by Sierra.

WET may stand for: A liquid will usually assume the shape of its container A liquid is one of the main states of matter. ... The Wets was Margaret Thatchers disparaging term for moderate members of the British Conservative Party. ... The new logo of the Conservative Party The Conservative Party is the largest centre right political party in the United Kingdom. ... Phencyclidine (a contraction of the chemical name phenylcyclohexylpiperidine), abbreviated PCP, is a dissociative drug formerly used as an anesthetic agent, exhibiting hallucinogenic and neurotoxic effects. ... Wet magazine was an avant-garde Los Angeles-based magazine that revolved around the idea of gourmet bathing, which later evolved to gourmet bathing and beyond. Its publisher and creator was Leonard Koren, an architecture school graduate. ... A wat is an Ethiopian stew which may be prepared with chicken, beef, lamb, a variety of vegetables, and spice mixtures such as berbere and niter kebbeh, a seasoned clarified butter. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The term Prohibition, also known as A Dry Law, refers to a law in a certain country by which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. ... A dry county is a county in the United States whose government forbids the sale of alcoholic beverages. ... Wet is an Upcoming video game, developed and published by Sierra for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. ...

Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Western European Time (WET, UTC+0) is the time zone covering parts of western and northwestern Europe, including the following countries and regions: Canary Islands, since 1946 (rest of Spain is CET, i. ... Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (ET) is a freeware first-person shooter (FPS) computer game, and a standalone sequel to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, created by Splash Damage. ... The Wuest Expanded Translation is a literal New Testament translation which follows quite strictly the word order in the Greek. ... Image:Wuest. ... Bellagio is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. It is owned by MGM Mirage and was built on the site of demolished Dunes hotel and casino. ...

See also

  • Wetting, getting two different materials to adhere (stick) to each other.
  • Wet Wet Wet, successful Scottish pop band of the 1980s and 1990s.
  • Wet dream, seminal ejaculation during sleep.
  • Wetback, derogatory term for a Mexican laborer who illegally enters the United States by swimming or wading the Rio Grande River.
  • Wet-on-wet, a painting technique
  • Wet nurse, a woman who breast feeds a baby that is not her own.
  • Wet etching, removal of material by immersing the wafer in a liquid bath of chemical etchant.
  • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, a Boer general and politician.
  • Wet & Wild: Slippery When Wet, ninth and last video in the Wet & Wild series of videos produced by Playboy magazine
  • Wet bulb globe temperature, to measure the possible evaporation in natural ventilation conditions
  • Wet artificial life, artificial life created in water (or other solvent) based chemical substrates.
  • Wet clean, process of using strong acids to remove damage from the surface of semiconductors.
  • Wet work, euphemism for murder or assassination by governmental agencies that came into use during the Cold War.
  • Wet grinder, popular tools in the South Indian kitchen used to make paste out of soaked grains and lentils.
  • Wet season, seasons in which the average rainfall in a region is significantly increased.
  • Subpreputial wetness, lanolin-like wetness commonly found in under the prepuce in most male and female individuals who have not undergone circumcision, as well as in the female vulva area.
  • Wet cell, kind of electrochemical cell
  • Adequately wet, environmental term referring to asbestos containing material that is sufficiently mixed or penetrated with liquid to prevent the release of particulates
  • Wet-folded, an origami technique
  • Wet electrons
  • Wet dock, dock where the level of water is maintained
  • Wet Congress, condition achieved in the 1932 election where a proper majority was set in the US congress to overturn the Volstead Act, ending prohibition.
  • Wetting layer
  • Wet sump, lubricating oil management design for four-stroke piston internal combustion engines which uses a built-in reservoir for oil
  • Wet from Birth, fourth studio album by the indie rock band The Faint.
  • Toad the Wet Sprocket, American folk pop band.
  • Wet T-shirt contest, form of beauty contest.
  • Wet and messy fetishism, form of sexual fetishism.
  • Wet Mountain Valley, located in Custer County in south-central Colorado.
  • Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1943 to 1946.
  • Wetted aspect ratio (wing), good indication of the aerodynamic efficiency of an aircraft.
  • Wet feet/dry feet, 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966.
  • I Get Wet, debut album from metal solo artist Andrew W. K.
  • Wet Tropics of Queensland, series of National Parks stretching for 450 km along the north east coast of Australia
  • My Soul Is Wet, the only album by the band Mutha's Day Out.
  • My Soul Is Wet (song), second track and the title track to the only album released by Mutha's Day Out.
  • Wet Dream (album), first solo album by Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright.
  • Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi's third and most commercially successful album.
  • Wet Hot American Summer, 2001 feature film
  • Wetted surface, a fluid mechanics term indicating the area of an object exposed to the fluid in question.

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Encyclopedia4U - Seance on a Wet Afternoon - Encyclopedia Article (166 words)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1965 film which tells the story of a self-described psychic who convinces her husband to kidnap a child so that she can gain fame by using her "psychic abilities" to find the girl.
The movie was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Mark McShane.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon was remade in 2000 as the Japanese language horror film Korei.
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