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10-letter words containing d, i, w

  • poisonwood — a tree, Metopium toxiferum, of southern Florida, that has compound leaves and yellowish, berrylike fruits and is poisonous to touch.
  • powderlike — resembling powder (usually in consistency or texture); powdery
  • power dive — a steep dive by an aircraft with its engines at high power
  • power grid — A power grid is a network of power lines and associated equipment used to transmit and distribute electricity over a geographic area.
  • power-dive — a dive, especially a steep dive, by an aircraft in which the engine or engines are delivering thrust at or near full power.
  • prize draw — raffle in which sth is won
  • quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
  • quiet down — stop talking so loudly
  • radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
  • radio wave — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
  • randomwise — in a random manner
  • rapidwrite — (language, tool)   A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
  • rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
  • rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
  • red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
  • ribbonwood — a small evergreen malvaceous tree, Hoheria populnea, of New Zealand. Its wood is used in furniture making and the tough bark for making cord
  • rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
  • rightwards — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
  • riverwards — towards a river
  • sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
  • shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
  • shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • sharawadgi — a form of Chinese landscape architecture known for its irregular and asymmetrical plantings
  • 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
  • shift down — When you shift down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
  • shopwindow — a window used for display of merchandise.
  • side-swipe — to strike with a sweeping stroke or blow along the side; strike a glancing blow obliquely.
  • side-wheel — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • sidewinder — a severe swinging blow from the side.
  • silverweed — a plant, Potentilla anserina, of the rose family, the leaves of which have a silvery pubescence on the underside.
  • skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
  • slide show — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
  • snow devil — a whirling column of snow
  • snow-blind — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
  • 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.
  • solid word — a word written or printed as single word without a hyphen
  • spider web — the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.
  • spiderwork — a thing which has the appearance of a spider's web
  • spiderwort — any plant of the genus Tradescantia, having blue, purple, or rose-colored flowers.
  • splintwood — a thin flexible wood often used for making baskets
  • springwood — the part of an annual ring of wood, characterized by large, thin-walled cells, formed during the first part of the growing season.
  • sqlwindows — (programming, product)   A package used to graphically develop MS-Windows client-server applications. Sold by Gupta Corporation.
  • state-wide — extending throughout all parts of a state in the U.S.: a statewide search.
  • stemwinder — a stemwinding watch.
  • stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
  • stick down — seal with an adhesive
  • strip down — remove paint or wallpaper from
  • swimfeeder — a device containing bait, attached to the line to ensure the gradual baiting of the swim from under the surface
  • swing band — a band that plays swing jazz
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