10-letter words containing a, w, n, s
- smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
- small town — Small town is used when referring to small places, usually in the United States, where people are friendly, honest, and polite, or to the people there. Small town is also sometimes used to suggest that someone has old-fashioned ideas.
- small-town — of, relating to, or characteristic of a town or village: a typical, small-town general store.
- smash down — If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
- snow apple — Fameuse.
- snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
- snow gauge — an instrument for measuring the depth of snow.
- snow grass — any of various grey-green grasses of the genus Poa, of SE Australian mountain regions
- snow plant — a leafless, parasitic plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, of the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada in California, having a stout spike of bright red flowers, a thickly scaled stem, and a corallike mass of roots.
- snow train — a train that takes passengers to and from a winter resort area.
- snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
- snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
- snowmaking — the creation of artificial snow at ski areas.
- solar wind — an emanation from the sun's corona consisting of a flow of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, that interacts with the magnetic field of the earth and other planetary bodies.
- son-in-law — the husband of one's daughter.
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- spongeware — earthenware decorated with color applied with a sponge.
- stab wound — knife injury
- stand down — Military. a temporary cessation of offensive actions; cease-fire; truce: a stand-down for the Christmas holidays.
- stand-down — Military. a temporary cessation of offensive actions; cease-fire; truce: a stand-down for the Christmas holidays.
- stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- sternwards — towards the stern; astern
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
- stuntwoman — A stuntwoman is a woman whose job is to do dangerous things, either for publicity, or in a movie instead of an actor so that the actor does not risk being injured.
- sunset law — a statute that includes provision for automatic termination of a government program, agency, etc., at the end of a specified time period unless it is reauthorized by the legislature.
- superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
- swamp pink — a bog plant, Helonias bullata, of the lily family, native to the eastern U.S., having a dense spike of small, fragrant pink flowers.
- sweatpants — loose-fitting pants of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, usually with a drawstring at the waist and close-fitting or elastic cuffs at the ankles, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- sweep hand — a hand, usually a second hand, centrally mounted with the minute and hour hands of a timepiece and reaching to the edge of the dial.
- swing band — a band that plays swing jazz
- swing loan — a bridge loan.
- swing pass — a pass thrown to a receiver, usually a running back, who is running toward a sideline
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
- sword cane — a cane or walking stick having a hollow shaft that serves as a sheath for a sword or dagger.
- swung dash — a mark of punctuation (∼) used in place of a word or part of a word previously spelled out.
- tandemwise — in the manner of a tandem
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- townswoman — a female native or inhabitant of a town.
- twin falls — a city in S Idaho.
- twin peaks — a mountain in central Idaho: highest peak in the Salmon River Mountains. 10,340 feet (3154 meters).
- two oceans — an annual road marathon run in Cape Town, South Africa
- unanswered — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- unshadowed — not shadowed; not darkened or obscured by shadow; free from gloom.