10-letter words containing i, a, w
- milliwatts — Plural form of milliwatt.
- miswandred — having strayed or become lost or gone off course
- mosaic law — the ancient law of the Hebrews, ascribed to Moses.
- moudiewart — a mole
- nationwide — extending throughout the nation: The incident aroused nationwide interest.
- new guinea — a large island N of Australia, politically divided into the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya (West Irian) and the independent country of Papua New Guinea. About 316,000 sq. mi. (818,000 sq. km).
- new iberia — a city in S Louisiana.
- news media — media1 (def 2).
- night-hawk — any of several longwinged, American goatsuckers of the genus Chordeiles, related to the whippoorwill, especially C. minor, having variegated black, white, and buff plumage.
- nighthawks — Plural form of nighthawk.
- no waiting — used on road signs to mean vehicles are not allowed to park, even for short periods of time
- not a whit — You say not a whit or not one whit to emphasize that something is not the case at all.
- nowcasting — the preparation or production of nowcasts
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- pantywaist — Informal. a weak, effeminate man; sissy.
- paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- party whip — whip (def 21).
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- pea weevil — a seed beetle, Bruchus pisorum, the larvae of which live in and feed on the seeds of the pea plant.
- piano wire — a very thin steel wire of high tensile strength.
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- pipsissewa — any evergreen plant of the genus Chimaphila, especially C. umbellata, the leaves of which are used medicinally for their tonic, diuretic, and astringent properties.
- pit sawing — a method of sawing logs or timbers, as into boards, in which the piece to be cut is laid horizontally across a pit and cut by a saw operated vertically by two people, one above and one in the pit below the piece.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- piwakawaka — a New Zealand fantail, Rhipidura Fuliginosa
- plain-wrap — packaged in a plain wrapper, especially one displaying no brand name; no-frills: the growing popularity of plain-wrap products.
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
- potawatomi — a member of an Algonquian Indian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin.
- powertrain — (in a motorized vehicle) the whole mechanism by which power is generated and transmitted to the road, surrounding air, water, etc
- prewarning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- preweaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- prize draw — raffle in which sth is won
- prizewoman — a female prize winner
- public law — Also called public act, public statute. a law or statute of a general character that applies to the people of a whole state or nation.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
- radio wave — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- railwayman — male railway worker
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rapidwrite — (language, tool) A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.