10-letter words containing d, o, w, e
- closedowns — Plural form of closedown.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
- cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
- cottonweed — a downy perennial plant, Otanthus maritimus, of European coastal regions, having small yellow flowers surrounded by large hairy bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- curse word — a profane or obscene word, especially as used in anger or for emphasis.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- decwindows — DEC's windowing environment based on the X Window System.
- deflowered — Simple past tense and past participle of deflower.
- deflowerer — One who deflowers.
- denis howe — (person) Denis B. Howe (1960 -) Editor of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- discrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.
- disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- disendowed — Simple past tense and past participle of disendow.
- disendower — One who disendows.
- dish towel — cloth: for drying dishes
- dishtowels — Plural form of dishtowel.
- disownment — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- do wonders — have a transforming effect
- dockworker — a person employed on the docks of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- dog warden — dogcatcher.
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- down under — Australia or New Zealand.
- down-cycle — business: move downward
- down-river — Something that is moving down-river is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is down-river is towards the mouth of a river.
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
- downcomers — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- downfallen — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
- downgraded — Simple past tense and past participle of downgrade.
- downgrades — Plural form of downgrade.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.