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10-letter words containing e, d, w

  • hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
  • hand-woven — woven by hand rather than by machine
  • handwarmer — a small, flat, usually pocket-size device containing material, as chemicals, hot liquids, or a battery-operated heating element, for warming the hands.
  • handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
  • hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
  • hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
  • hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
  • hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
  • 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.
  • headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
  • headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
  • heave down — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
  • heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
  • hedgewitch — A modern witch who focuses on herbalism and shamanic experience.
  • herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
  • herdswomen — Plural form of herdswoman.
  • highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
  • hitherward — hither.
  • hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
  • hollywired — Siliwood
  • hoodiecrow — A hooded crow, Corvus cornix.
  • hoodwinked — to deceive or trick.
  • hoodwinker — One who hoodwinks.
  • horned owl — any large owl of the genus Bubo, having prominent ear tufts: family Strigidae
  • horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
  • hydropower — hydroelectric power.
  • idle wheel — a wheel for transmitting power and motion between a driving and a driven part, either by friction or by means of teeth.
  • ill-willed — hostile feeling; malevolence; enmity: to harbor ill will against someone.
  • indwelling — to inhabit.
  • interwinds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interwind.
  • interworld — A world between other worlds.
  • 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.
  • irrenowned — not famous or renowned
  • jewelweeds — Plural form of jewelweed.
  • jimsonweed — (botany, US) A poisonous plant Datura stramonium, in the nightshade (Solanaceae) family. A hallucinogen occasionally ingested by those looking for a cheap high.
  • kidneywort — the navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having drooping yellowish-green flowers.
  • know-ledge — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
  • knowledged — Simple past tense and past participle of knowledge.
  • knowledges — Plural form of knowledge.
  • ladieswear — clothes designed for women
  • 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.
  • lead screw — (on a lathe) a rotating horizontal screw for moving the tool carriage along the work at a constant rate.
  • lead white — a poisonous pigment used in painting, consisting of white lead and characterized chiefly by a fugitive white color, covering power, and tough, flexible film-forming properties.
  • leeuwarden — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
  • leftwardly — leftwards
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