Wet
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Wet could refer to:
- 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 may stand for:
- Western European Time.
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a video game.
- Wuest Expanded Translation, a translation of the New Testament by Kenneth Wuest.
- WET Web Tester, an automated web testing tool
[edit] 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 alife, 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.