10-letter words containing i, r, a, w
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- right away — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rightwards — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- riverwards — towards a river
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
- screw nail — drive screw.
- sharawadgi — a form of Chinese landscape architecture known for its irregular and asymmetrical plantings
- shirtwaist — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
- show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
- silverware — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
- snow train — a train that takes passengers to and from a winter resort area.
- social war — Greek History. the war between Athens and its confederates, 357–355 b.c.
- 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.
- squarewise — in a square position or shape
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.
- 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.
- strip away — remove entirely
- strip-wash — a thorough, all-over wash with a flannel, sponge, etc, and water but without getting into a bath or shower
- swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
- sweatshirt — a loose, long-sleeved, collarless pullover of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, with close-fitting or elastic cuffs and sometimes a drawstring at the waist, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- the wirral — a peninsula in NW England between the estuaries of the Rivers Mersey and Dee
- tidewaiter — a customs officer who checks goods upon a vessel's landing, to secure the payment of duties.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- towel rail — a rail or frame in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- 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.
- trail away — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- twin-track — involving two simultaneous actions or processes
- twitterati — users of the social networking site Twitter
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- unwavering — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- unwearying — not causing weariness
- uphillward — in an uphill direction
- urban wind — a turbulent wind at street level around tall structures in a city, characterized by a warming of the air by the heat output from these structures.
- 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 −.
- wabiserver — (operating system, tool) An addition to Wabi which allows the Microsoft Windows application to run on a server, e.g. a powerful Intel-based computer, with users accessing it from their desktop which can be a cheap computer such as an X terminal.
- wafer-thin — very thin: a wafer-thin slice.
- wage drift — the change in the amount by which actual earnings exceed negotiated earnings
- wainwright — Jonathan Mayhew [mey-hyoo] /ˈmeɪ hyu/ (Show IPA), 1883–1953, U.S. general.
- waiterhood — the state of being a waiter
- waitperson — a waiter or waitress.
- waitress's — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waitresses — Plural form of waitress.
- wake-robin — the cuckoopint.