10-letter words containing a, w, d, l
- draw-slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- drawlingly — Speaking with a drawl.
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- dreamworld — A fantastic or idealized view of life.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- duniwassal — (in Scotland) a minor nobleman
- dwarf male — a male animal that is much smaller, and often internally simpler, than its female counterpart. Dwarf males are commonly carried by the female, as in species of angler fish
- dwarfishly — In a dwarfish manner.
- early wood — springwood.
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- false dawn — zodiacal light occurring before sunrise.
- farewelled — Simple past tense and past participle of farewell.
- firewalled — Simple past tense and past participle of firewall.
- flood wall — Civil Engineering. a wall built along a shore or bank to prevent floods by giving a raised, uniform freeboard and by allowing unimpeded flow to water in a channel.
- floodwalls — Plural form of floodwall.
- floodwater — the water that overflows as the result of a flood.
- flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
- galaxywide — Throughout a galaxy.
- goldwasser — a liqueur flavored with spices, figs, lemons, and herbs, and having minute flakes of gold leaf in suspension.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
- hardwarily — /hard-weir'*-lee/ In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective "hardwary" is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- ladieswear — clothes designed for women
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landowners — Plural form of landowner.
- landowning — an owner or proprietor of land.
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- lead screw — (on a lathe) a rotating horizontal screw for moving the tool carriage along the work at a constant rate.
- lead white — a poisonous pigment used in painting, consisting of white lead and characterized chiefly by a fugitive white color, covering power, and tough, flexible film-forming properties.
- leeuwarden — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
- leftwardly — leftwards
- lewis acid — any substance capable of forming a covalent bond with a base by accepting a pair of electrons from it.
- local wind — one of a number of winds that are influenced predominantly by the topographic features of a relatively small region.
- longmeadow — a town in S Massachusetts.
- low sunday — the first Sunday after Easter.
- low-loader — a road or rail vehicle for heavy loads with a low platform for ease of access
- 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.
- maned wolf — a South American wild dog, Chrysocyon jubatus, having a shaggy, reddish coat and long ears and legs: now reduced in number.
- 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.
- meadowland — an area or section of land that is a meadow or is used or kept as a meadow.
- 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.
- metal wood — a structural material consisting of a sheet of metal glued between two veneers or of a veneer glued between two sheets of metal.
- middleware — Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network.
- moonwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of moonwalk.
- new candle — candela
- newfangled — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.