10-letter words containing i, c, e, w
- twice-laid — made from strands of used rope.
- twice-told — having been told before; related two times.
- twickenham — a former borough, now part of Richmond upon Thames, in SE England.
- twin-screw — (of a vessel) having two screw propellers, which usually revolve in opposite directions.
- unswitched — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
- wage claim — the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives
- wainscoted — Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
- war crimes — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- war office — the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
- warrandice — (legal) A form of warranty, in Scots law, in which a person conveying property was held liable for any outstanding claims on the property.
- watch fire — a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
- water rice — wild rice.
- water-inch — the quantity of water (approx. 500 cubic feet) discharged in 24 hours through a circular opening of one inch diameter leading from a reservoir in which the water is constantly only high enough to cover the orifice.
- water-sick — (of soil) unproductive due to excessive watering or salt residues from irrigation.
- wax insect — any of several scale insects that secrete a commercially valuable waxy substance, especially a Chinese scale insect, Ericerus pe-la.
- waxahachie — a city in NE central Texas.
- webcasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- weedicides — Plural form of weedicide.
- weizsacker — Carl Friedrich von [kahrl free-drikh fuh n] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- wheelchair — a chair mounted on wheels for use by persons who cannot walk.
- whickering — to whinny; neigh.
- white buck — a casual oxford shoe made of white buckskin.
- white cake — a cake that is pale in color because its batter contains the whites of eggs but no yolks
- white cell — leukocyte
- white chip — a white-colored chip having the lowest value (contrasted with blue chip).
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- white coat — a white coat worn over everyday clothes by a doctor in a hospital or a scientist
- white crab — ghost crab.
- white race — fair-skinned people
- white rock — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, SE of Vancouver.
- white-face — a Hereford.
- whitecedar — (US) alternative spelling of white cedar.
- whitecoats — Plural form of whitecoat.
- whitespace — Alternative spelling of white space.
- whitterick — a weasel or stout
- wickedness — the quality or state of being wicked.
- wickerwork — material or products consisting of plaited or woven twigs or osiers; articles made of wicker.
- widescreen — of, noting, or pertaining to motion pictures projected on a screen having greater width than height, usually in a ratio of 1 to 2.5.
- wildcarded — (computing) Replaced or supplemented with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
- wildcatted — Simple past tense and past participle of wildcat.
- wildcatter — an oil prospector.
- winceyette — a plain-weave cotton fabric with slightly raised two-sided nap
- winchester — (in the Middle Ages) a kingdom, later an earldom, in S England. Capital: Winchester.
- wind chest — a chamber containing the air supply for the reeds or pipes of an organ.
- wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- windchimes — Plural form of windchime.
- windows ce — (operating system) /C E/ A version of the Microsoft Windows operating system that is being used in a variety of embedded products, from handheld PCs to specialised industrial controllers and consumer electronic devices. Programming for Windows CE is similar to programming for other Win32 platforms. Windows CE was developed to be a customisable operating system for embedded applications. Its kernel borrows much from other Microsoft 32-bit operating systems, while eliminating (or replacing) those operating system features that are not needed for typical Windows CE-based applications. For example, as on Windows NT, all applications running on Windows CE run in a fully preemptive multitasking environment, in fully protected memory spaces. The Win32 (API) for Windows CE is smaller than the Win32 API for the other 32-bit Windows operating systems. It includes approximately half the interface methods of the Windows NT version of the API. But the Win32 API for Windows CE also includes features found in no other Microsoft operating system. The notification API, for example, makes it possible to handle user or application notification events (such as timer events) at the operating-system level, rather than in a running application. The touch screen API and the built-in support for the Windows CE database are not found in other Windows operating systems. The touch screen API makes it easy to manage screen calibration and user interactions for touch-sensitive displays, while the database API provides access to a data storage facility.
- windscreen — windshield.