10-letter words containing a, r, c, w
- law french — Anglo-French as used in legal proceedings and lawbooks in England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th century, some terms of which are still in use.
- lawn chair — a chair or chaise longue designed for use out of doors.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- lead screw — (on a lathe) a rotating horizontal screw for moving the tool carriage along the work at a constant rate.
- lower back — lumbar region
- lower case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- lower-case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- lowercased — Printed or written in lowercase letters.
- macroworld — A world or reality on a larger scale, thus for example the social scale when discussing individual affairs, or the human scale when discussing particle physics.
- markiewicz — Constance, Countess, original name Constance Gore-Booth. 1868–1927, Irish nationalist, married to a Polish count. She fought in the Easter Rising (1916) and was sentenced to death but reprieved. The first woman elected to the British parliament (1918), she refused to take her seat
- microwatts — Plural form of microwatt.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- mocha ware — a pottery ware of the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, ornamented with colored glaze worked into branchlike patterns by drops of a diffusing agent applied while the glaze is still wet.
- narrowback — a person of slight build who is unfit for hard labor.
- narrowcast — to aim a program or programming at a specific, limited audience or sales market.
- new france — the French colonies and possessions in North America up to 1763.
- new-collar — pertaining to or designating middle-class wage earners holding jobs in a service industry.
- newscaster — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- oceanwards — Oceanward.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- power pack — a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- racewalker — a person who participates in racewalking
- sacred cow — an individual, organization, institution, etc., considered to be exempt from criticism or questioning.
- saw doctor — a sawmill specialist who sharpens and services saw blades
- scare away — frighten off sb, sth
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- schoolward — towards or in the direction of school
- schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- score draw — A score draw is the result of a football match in which both teams score at least one goal, and they score the same number of goals.
- screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
- screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
- screw jack — jackscrew.
- screw nail — drive screw.
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- scroll saw — a narrow saw mounted vertically in a frame and operated with an up-and-down motion, used for cutting curved ornamental designs.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- slow march — a march in slow time
- smartwatch — a computing device that resembles a wristwatch and is attached to a band worn around the wrist: Get email and text message notifications on your smartwatch.
- social war — Greek History. the war between Athens and its confederates, 357–355 b.c.
- swarm cell — the amebalike germinated spore cell of myxomycetes.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- sword cane — a cane or walking stick having a hollow shaft that serves as a sheath for a sword or dagger.
- swordcraft — skill in or the art of swordplay.