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10-letter words containing i, n, w, a

  • 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
  • pantywaist — Informal. a weak, effeminate man; sissy.
  • pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
  • piano wire — a very thin steel wire of high tensile strength.
  • pine straw — fallen pine needles.
  • 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
  • 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
  • poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
  • 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.
  • prizewoman — a female prize winner
  • punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
  • rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
  • railwayman — male railway worker
  • rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
  • randomwise — in a random manner
  • raw sienna — a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
  • 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.
  • rewriteman — a newspaper employee who writes articles from available information or who reworks the copy written by reporters.
  • sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
  • screw nail — drive screw.
  • shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
  • shawinigan — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
  • snow train — a train that takes passengers to and from a winter resort area.
  • snowmaking — the creation of artificial snow at ski areas.
  • 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.
  • son-in-law — the husband of one's daughter.
  • stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
  • straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
  • swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
  • swamp pink — a bog plant, Helonias bullata, of the lily family, native to the eastern U.S., having a dense spike of small, fragrant pink flowers.
  • swing band — a band that plays swing jazz
  • swing loan — a bridge loan.
  • swing pass — a pass thrown to a receiver, usually a running back, who is running toward a sideline
  • swinglebar — a whiffletree.
  • table wine — a wine that contains not more than 14 percent alcohol and is usually served as an accompaniment to food.
  • tandemwise — in the manner of a tandem
  • tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
  • 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.
  • twangingly — in a twanging manner
  • twickenham — a former borough, now part of Richmond upon Thames, in SE England.
  • twin falls — a city in S Idaho.
  • twin peaks — a mountain in central Idaho: highest peak in the Salmon River Mountains. 10,340 feet (3154 meters).
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