10-letter words containing d, r, a, w, n
- hardwiring — a fixed connection between electrical and electronic components and devices by means of wires (as distinguished from a wireless connection).
- heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- inwardness — the state of being inward or internal: the inwardness of the body's organs.
- 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.
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- leeuwarden — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
- miswandred — having strayed or become lost or gone off course
- 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.
- netherward — bottom-most, lowest
- newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
- newsreader — a person who presents the news on a radio or television news broadcast; newscaster.
- 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
- 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.
- rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
- snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
- 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.
- stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- sternwards — towards the stern; astern
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
- sword cane — a cane or walking stick having a hollow shaft that serves as a sheath for a sword or dagger.
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trade down — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade wind — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
- two-hander — a play for two actors
- un-awarded — to give as due or merited; assign or bestow: to award prizes.
- un-awkward — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- unanswered — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
- underdrawn — to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.
- underjawed — with a heavy or underhung lower jaw
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- underwater — existing or occurring under water.
- unrewarded — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- untowardly — in an untoward manner
- urban wind — a turbulent wind at street level around tall structures in a city, characterized by a warming of the air by the heat output from these structures.
- waldenburg — German name of Wałbrzych.