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10-letter words containing d, o, w, n, a

  • forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
  • freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
  • frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
  • go down as — If you say that an event or action will go down as a particular thing, you mean that it will be regarded, remembered, or recorded as that thing.
  • ground war — the part of a political campaign that is conducted door-to-door by party workers in individual constituencies
  • groundward — Towards the ground.
  • hand mower — a lawn mower that is pushed by hand (distinguished from power mower).
  • hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
  • hand-woven — woven by hand rather than by machine
  • handbarrow — a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
  • hands down — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
  • hands-down — easy: a hands-down victory.
  • handywoman — Female equivalent of handyman.
  • handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
  • head wound — a wound to the head
  • heads down — [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
  • heave down — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
  • herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
  • horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
  • iron-jawed — having a jaw of or like iron: an iron-jawed press; an iron-jawed fighter.
  • janus word — a word that has opposite or nearly opposite meanings, as cleave, meaning ‘to adhere closely’ and ‘to part or split’.
  • land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
  • landowners — Plural form of landowner.
  • landowning — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
  • local wind — one of a number of winds that are influenced predominantly by the topographic features of a relatively small region.
  • longmeadow — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • low sunday — the first Sunday after Easter.
  • maned wolf — a South American wild dog, Chrysocyon jubatus, having a shaggy, reddish coat and long ears and legs: now reduced in number.
  • meadowland — an area or section of land that is a meadow or is used or kept as a meadow.
  • moonwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of moonwalk.
  • narrowband — Of or involving signals over a narrow range of frequencies.
  • narrowbody — (aeronautics) An airliner capable of seating six or less passengers in a single row of economy seating, with one aisle.
  • narrowhead — Applied to various kinds of animals with a narrow head.
  • nationwide — extending throughout the nation: The incident aroused nationwide interest.
  • nonallowed — Not allowed.
  • northwards — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
  • oceanwards — Oceanward.
  • orangewood — the hard, fine-grained, yellowish wood of the orange tree, used in inlaid work and fine turnery.
  • pared-down — If you describe something as pared-down, you mean that it has no unnecessary features, and has been reduced to a very simple form.
  • randomwise — in a random manner
  • rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
  • rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
  • sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • sappanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
  • scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
  • 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.
  • shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
  • shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
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