10-letter words containing a, w, o
- barrow boy — A barrow boy is a man or boy who sells fruit or other goods from a barrow in the street.
- barrow pit — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- barrow-boy — a man or boy who sells wares from a barrow; costermonger.
- basketwork — work that is interlaced or woven like a basket; wickerwork
- batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
- bath towel — A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- bay window — A bay window is a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house.
- beadswoman — a female inhabitant of a beadhouse
- beard worm — pogonophoran.
- bedeswoman — beadswoman
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- boatwright — a craftsman who builds wooden boats.
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- bondswoman — a woman who is bound or who by bond becomes surety for another.
- borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- bowser bag — doggy bag.
- brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
- broadsword — a broad-bladed sword used for cutting rather than stabbing
- browbeaten — intimidated
- browbeater — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- brown bear — a large ferocious brownish bear, Ursus arctos, inhabiting temperate forests of North America, Europe, and Asia
- brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
- brown coat — arriccio.
- caddisworm — the aquatic larva of a caddis fly, which constructs a protective case around itself made of silk, sand, stones, etc
- callowness — immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
- cameo ware — jasper ware with applied decoration of classical motifs, resembling a cameo
- camerawork — The camerawork in a film is the way it has been filmed, especially if the style is interesting or unusual in some way.
- candlewood — the resinous wood of any of several trees, used for torches and candle substitutes
- cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
- car-worker — a person who works in the car industry
- caseworker — A caseworker is someone who does casework.
- cat's meow — Slang. someone or something wonderful or remarkable.
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- censorware — (computing) Software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet or block Internet access or restrict the running of applications or computer usage. Content filtering software, or a component in an operating system or console used to disable reception of media on the basis of content believed to be objectionable.
- chain-work — any decorative product, handiwork, etc., in which parts are looped or woven together, like the links of a chain.
- chairwoman — The chairwoman of a meeting, committee, or organization is the woman in charge of it.
- chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
- chase down — If you chase someone down, you run after them or follow them quickly and catch them.
- chip wagon — a small van in which chips are cooked and sold