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10-letter words containing d, i, w

  • drinkwaterJohn, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
  • drive away — depart in a vehicle
  • drowsihead — drowsiness.
  • drowsiness — half-asleep; sleepy.
  • dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
  • duniwassal — (in Scotland) a minor nobleman
  • dust whirl — dust devil.
  • dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
  • dvd writer — A DVD writer is the same as a DVD burner.
  • dwarfishly — In a dwarfish manner.
  • dwell time — the amount of time a customer spends waiting in a queue
  • edward iii — 1312–77, king of England 1327–77 (son of Edward II).
  • edward vii — (Albert Edward"the Peacemaker") 1841–1910, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1901–10 (son of Queen Victoria).
  • eiderdowns — Plural form of eiderdown.
  • exit wound — a wound caused by a missile, esp a bullet, leaving a person's body
  • fan window — a window having a fanlike form with radiating sash bars, used especially as a fanlight.
  • fat-witted — stupid; dull-witted.
  • fiddle bow — a bow with which the strings of the violin or a similar instrument are set in vibration.
  • fiddlewood — the heavy, hard, durable wood of various West Indian and other trees.
  • field work — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
  • fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
  • fight down — If you fight down an emotion or a desire, you try very hard not to feel it, show it, or act on it.
  • fine-drawn — drawn out to extreme fineness or thinness.
  • firewalled — Simple past tense and past participle of firewall.
  • firewarden — a person having authority in the prevention or extinguishing of fires, as in towns or camps.
  • first down — the first of four consecutive plays during which an offensive team must advance the ball at least ten yards to retain possession of it.
  • fixed-wing — of or relating to aircraft that derive lift from the motion of air over aerodynamically designed surfaces that are rigidly and permanently attached to the fuselage.
  • forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
  • galaxywide — Throughout a galaxy.
  • genomewide — (genetics) Throughout a genome.
  • going down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • goldwynism — a phrase or statement involving a humorous and supposedly unintentional misuse of idiom, as “Keep a stiff upper chin,” especially such a statement attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, as “Include me out.”.
  • golf widow — a woman whose husband frequently leaves her alone while he plays golf.
  • goodwilled — possessing goodwill
  • grind down — make into powder
  • guide word — catchword (def 2).
  • guidwillie — generous or cordial
  • gwendoline — a feminine name: dim. Gwen; var. Gwendolyn
  • halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
  • hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
  • 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.
  • hardwiring — a fixed connection between electrical and electronic components and devices by means of wires (as distinguished from a wireless connection).
  • headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
  • hedgewitch — A modern witch who focuses on herbalism and shamanic experience.
  • highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
  • hitherward — hither.
  • hollywired — Siliwood
  • hoodiecrow — A hooded crow, Corvus cornix.
  • hoodwinked — to deceive or trick.
  • hoodwinker — One who hoodwinks.
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