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10-letter words containing e, n, w

  • tanglewood — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
  • tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
  • the wrekin — an isolated hill in the English Midlands in Telford and Wrekin unitary authority, Shropshire. Height: 400 m (1335 ft)
  • throw open — to open completely and suddenly
  • tinseltown — Hollywood, California, as a center of the movie industry.
  • tonic wine — a wine, usually fortified, generally consumed for its supposed invigorating effects
  • top twenty — the twenty most important or successful items in a particular list
  • towel ring — a circular hoop in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
  • town clerk — a town official who keeps records and issues licenses.
  • town crier — (formerly) a person employed by a town to make public announcements or proclamations, usually by shouting in the streets.
  • town house — a house in the city, especially as distinguished from a house in the country owned by the same person.
  • townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.
  • 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.
  • trawlerman — a person working on a fishing trawler at sea
  • tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
  • twenty-one — a cardinal number, 20 plus 1.
  • twenty-six — a cardinal number, 20 plus 6.
  • twenty-two — a cardinal number, 20 plus 2.
  • twentyfold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
  • twice-born — Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.
  • twickenham — a former borough, now part of Richmond upon Thames, in SE England.
  • twin peaks — a mountain in central Idaho: highest peak in the Salmon River Mountains. 10,340 feet (3154 meters).
  • twin-screw — (of a vessel) having two screw propellers, which usually revolve in opposite directions.
  • twinflower — either of two slender, creeping, evergreen, caprifoliaceous plants, Linnaea borealis, of Europe, or L. americana, of North America, having pink or purplish nodding flowers borne in pairs on threadlike stalks.
  • two oceans — an annual road marathon run in Cape Town, South Africa
  • two-handed — having two hands.
  • two-hander — a play for two actors
  • un-awarded — to give as due or merited; assign or bestow: to award prizes.
  • unanswered — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
  • unavowable — to declare frankly or openly; own; acknowledge; confess; admit: He avowed himself an opponent of all alliances.
  • unavowedly — in an unavowed or concealed manner
  • unawakened — (esp of the emotions or passions) not awakened or aroused
  • unbestowed — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
  • unbewailed — not bewailed or grieved for; unlamented
  • unborrowed — not borrowed
  • unchewable — not able to be chewed; tough
  • under-work — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
  • underdrawn — to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.
  • undergrown — not grown to normal size or height: sickly and undergrown cattle.
  • underjawed — with a heavy or underhung lower jaw
  • underthrow — to throw a ball or other object short of (the intended receiver or target)
  • underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
  • underwater — existing or occurring under water.
  • underwhelm — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • underwired — (of a woman's garment) containing thin metallic pieces to support and give shape to the breasts
  • underworld — the criminal element of human society.
  • underwrite — to write under or at the foot of, especially under other written matter.
  • underwrote — simple past tense of underwrite.
  • unfellowed — without a companion; unmatched; unmated
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