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Wet could refer to:

WET may stand for:

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.