10-letter words containing i, w
- czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
- dairywoman — a woman who owns, manages, or works in a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- daisywheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- deadweight — (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
- death wish — A death wish is a conscious or unconscious desire to die or be killed.
- decwindows — DEC's windowing environment based on the X Window System.
- delta wing — a triangular sweptback aircraft wing
- denis howe — (person) Denis B. Howe (1960 -) Editor of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- dewatering — the act of removing water
- dewberries — Plural form of dewberry.
- dexterwise — on or to the right hand side (of a heraldic shield)
- dim-witted — a stupid or slow-thinking person.
- dinnerware — china, glasses, and silver used for table service.
- dip switch — computing: on-off switch
- dirty word — a vulgar or taboo word; obscenity.
- dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.
- disc wheel — a road wheel of a motor vehicle that has a round pressed disc in place of spokes
- discrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.
- disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- disendowed — Simple past tense and past participle of disendow.
- disendower — One who disendows.
- disentwine — (transitive) To free from being entwined or twisted; untwine.
- dish towel — cloth: for drying dishes
- dishtowels — Plural form of dishtowel.
- dishwasher — a person who washes dishes.
- disk wheel — a spokeless vehicular wheel, especially on automobiles, having a heavy circular pressed-steel disk mounted on the wheel hub and supporting the tire rim on its outer edge.
- disownment — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- disworship — to refuse to revere or worship
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- do without — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- down-river — Something that is moving down-river is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is down-river is towards the mouth of a river.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- downlights — Plural form of downlight.
- downrigger — a fishing line used in trolling that is attached to a weighted cable in order to put lures or bait at a specific depth under a boat, usually near the floor.
- downsizing — to design or manufacture a smaller version or type of: The automotive industry downsized its cars for improved fuel economy.
- downslides — Plural form of downslide.
- downstairs — down the stairs.
- downswings — Plural form of downswing.
- draw slide — dark slide (def 1).
- draw-slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- drawbridge — a bridge of which the whole or a section may be drawn up, let down, or drawn aside, to prevent access or to leave a passage open for boats, barges, etc.