10-letter words containing a, w, l, s
- 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.
- lusterware — ceramic ware covered with a luster.
- lustreware — Alternative spelling of lusterware.
- malinowski — Bronislaw Kasper [bron-uh-slahf kas-per;; Polish braw-nee-slahf kahs-puh r] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɑf ˈkæs pər;; Polish brɔˈni slɑf ˈkɑs pər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1942, Polish anthropologist in the U.S.
- malus' law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- marrowless — Anatomy. a soft, fatty, vascular tissue in the interior cavities of bones that is a major site of blood cell production.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- miles away — If you say that someone is miles away, you mean that they are unaware of what is happening around them because they are thinking about something else.
- milliwatts — Plural form of milliwatt.
- mollymawks — Plural form of mollymawk.
- mosaic law — the ancient law of the Hebrews, ascribed to Moses.
- navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
- new castle — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- news flash — flash (def 6).
- news value — newsworthiness; value in terms of its interest to consumers of published or broadcast news
- newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- planer saw — a hollow-ground circular saw for ripping and cutting across grain, having raker teeth for clearing away the chips cut by the cutting teeth.
- radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
- real wages — wages evaluated with reference to their purchasing power rather than to the money actually paid
- renewables — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
- salad bowl — a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.
- saleswoman — a woman who sells goods, services, etc.
- sallowness — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
- salt water — water containing a large amount of salt.
- sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scapa flow — an area of water off the N coast of Scotland, in the Orkney Islands: British naval base; German warships scuttled 1919.
- scapewheel — escape wheel.
- 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
- 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.
- sea lawyer — a sailor inclined to question or complain about the orders given.
- sea walnut — a comb jelly, as of the genus Mnemiopsis, shaped like a walnut.
- seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
- self-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
- shadowless — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shield law — a law protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources of information.
- shieldwall — a protective wall formed by interlocking the shields of foot soldiers