10-letter words containing d, e, w, l, a
- farewelled — Simple past tense and past participle of farewell.
- firewalled — Simple past tense and past participle of firewall.
- 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
- 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.
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- 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.
- longmeadow — a town in S Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 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.
- newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
- nonallowed — Not allowed.
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- real world — the realm of practical or actual experience, as opposed to the abstract, theoretical, or idealized sphere of the classroom, laboratory, etc.: recent college graduates looking for jobs in the real world of rising unemployment.
- rewardable — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- 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.
- 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
- snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
- speedwalks — power walking.
- tanglewood — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
- tidal wave — (not in technical use) a large, destructive ocean wave, produced by a seaquake, hurricane, or strong wind. Compare tsunami.
- twice-laid — made from strands of used rope.
- two-tailed — (of a significance test) concerned with the hypothesis that an observed value of a sampling statistic differs significantly from a given value, where an error in either direction is relevant: for instance, in testing the fairness of scales, an inspector will seek to exclude both overweight and underweight goods
- unavowedly — in an unavowed or concealed manner
- unbewailed — not bewailed or grieved for; unlamented
- unhallowed — not hallowed or consecrated; not regarded as holy or sacred: unhallowed ground.
- video wall — A video wall is a set of video screens that are connected together, so that each screen shows a part of the whole picture or so that the same picture is repeated on each screen.