10-letter words containing a, r, o, w
- man-of-war — a warship.
- marblewood — any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
- markswoman — a woman skilled in shooting at a mark; a woman who shoots well.
- markswomen — Plural form of markswoman.
- marrow fat — a large-seeded variety of pea.
- marrowbone — A bone containing edible marrow.
- marrowfats — Plural form of marrowfat.
- marrowless — Anatomy. a soft, fatty, vascular tissue in the interior cavities of bones that is a major site of blood cell production.
- mars brown — a medium brown color.
- masterwork — masterpiece.
- masterwort — a European plant, Astrantia major, of the parsley family, having pinkish-rose or white flower clusters with purplish bracts beneath.
- meadow rue — any of several plants belonging to the genus Thalictrum, of the buttercup family, having leaves resembling those of rue, especially T. dioicum, of North America.
- meadowlark — any of several American songbirds of the genus Sturnella, of the family Icteridae, especially S. magna (eastern meadowlark) and S. neglecta (western meadowlark) having a brownish and black back and wings and a yellow breast, noted for their clear, tuneful song.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- 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.
- moonwalker — One who moonwalks; an astronaut who has walked on the moon.
- morgantown — a city in N West Virginia.
- mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
- moudiewart — a mole
- mowrah fat — a yellow, semifluid fat expressed from the seeds of several trees of the genus Madhuca, used in making soap and as an adulterant in butter.
- nameworthy — worthy of or deserving a name
- narrowback — a person of slight build who is unfit for hard labor.
- narrowband — Of or involving signals over a narrow range of frequencies.
- narrowboat — A canal boat less than 7 feet (2.1 m) wide with a maximum length of 70 feet (21.3 m) and steered with a tiller rather than a wheel.
- narrowbody — (aeronautics) An airliner capable of seating six or less passengers in a single row of economy seating, with one aisle.
- narrowcast — to aim a program or programming at a specific, limited audience or sales market.
- narrowhead — Applied to various kinds of animals with a narrow head.
- narrowness — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- new-collar — pertaining to or designating middle-class wage earners holding jobs in a service industry.
- nonrenewal — the fact or act of not renewing
- norsewoman — a female member of the peoples of ancient Norway or Scandinavia
- northwards — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- norway rat — an Old World rat, Rattus norvegicus, having a grayish-brown body with whitish underparts and a long, scaly tail, now common in the U.S. in or near homes, barns, wharves, etc.
- oceanwards — Oceanward.
- on welfare — the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- oral vowel — an ordinary vowel that is produced without nasalization
- orangewood — the hard, fine-grained, yellowish wood of the orange tree, used in inlaid work and fine turnery.
- orb weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Argiopidae, characterized by loosely woven, spiraling webs that have support lines radiating outward from the center.
- overdrawer — a person who overdraws something, especially a bank account.
- overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
- overthwart — to lie across
- overwarmed — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
- pared-down — If you describe something as pared-down, you mean that it has no unnecessary features, and has been reduced to a very simple form.