10-letter words containing d, o, w
- 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.
- 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.
- flood wall — Civil Engineering. a wall built along a shore or bank to prevent floods by giving a raised, uniform freeboard and by allowing unimpeded flow to water in a channel.
- floodwalls — Plural form of floodwall.
- floodwater — the water that overflows as the result of a flood.
- flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- flowerbeds — Plural form of flowerbed.
- flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
- force down — eat with difficulty
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshow.
- forewarned — to warn in advance.
- forward of — If one thing is forward of another, especially on a ship or aircraft, the first thing is in front of the second thing or further ahead.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- free world — the nations of the world that function chiefly under democratic and capitalistic systems rather than under totalitarianism or Communism.
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- freedwomen — Plural form of freedwoman.
- frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
- furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
- genomewide — (genetics) Throughout a genome.
- ghost word — a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint.
- ghost-weed — snow-on-the-mountain.
- 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.
- go down on — To go down on someone means to have oral sex with them.
- go towards — If an amount of money goes towards something, it is used to pay part of the cost of that thing.
- go-forward — forward momentum, esp of a sports team during a match
- goa powder — a brownish-yellow, odorless, crystalline powder obtained from the wood or the trunk of the Brazilian tree Andira araroba, used as a source of chrysarobin.
- god's word — the Bible.
- going down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- goldwasser — a liqueur flavored with spices, figs, lemons, and herbs, and having minute flakes of gold leaf in suspension.
- 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.
- good show! — an exclamation of appreciation and congratulations on another's accomplishment
- goodfellow — a cheerful companion
- goodwilled — possessing goodwill
- gopherwood — yellowwood.
- greasewood — a shrub, Sarcobatus vermiculatus, of the amaranth family, growing in alkaline regions of the western U.S., containing a small amount of oil.
- greatsword — Any generally straight bladed double edged sword large enough that it required the use of two hands to wield it effectively.
- greenwoods — Plural form of greenwood.
- grind down — make into powder
- ground owl — the burrowing owl.
- ground row — a long, low piece of stage scenery, built to simulate part of a landscape, a building, a fence, or the like.
- ground war — the part of a political campaign that is conducted door-to-door by party workers in individual constituencies
- groundward — Towards the ground.
- groundwood — wood that has been ground for making into pulp.
- groundwork — foundation or basis: He laid the groundwork for an international conference.
- groundworm — (dialectal, dated) earthworm.
- guide word — catchword (def 2).
- gwendoline — a feminine name: dim. Gwen; var. Gwendolyn