10-letter words containing k, o, w
- wacked-out — whacked-out.
- wageworker — a member of the laboring class; wage earner.
- wake up to — If you wake up to something, you become aware of it.
- wake-robin — the cuckoopint.
- walk in on — If you walk in on someone, you enter the room that they are in while they are doing something private, and this creates an embarrassing situation.
- walk socks — men's knee-length stockings
- walkabouts — Plural form of walkabout.
- walkaround — A competitive dance in blackface minstrel shows of the 19th century.
- walkshorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- water-soak — to soak or saturate with water.
- waterworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a complete system of reservoirs, pipelines, conduits, etc., by which water is collected, purified, stored, and pumped to urban users.
- wattlework — a simple covering for a human dwelling constructed from interwoven branches and leaved twigs
- weak force — a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta-decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles.
- weak point — an area of weakness
- well-known — clearly or fully known: The well-known reasons are obvious.
- whaikorero — the art of formal speech-making
- wheel lock — an old type of gunlock in which sparks are produced by the friction of a small steel wheel against a piece of iron pyrites.
- whipstocks — Plural form of whipstock.
- whiskbroom — A small hand broom, with a short handle, for brushing clothes.
- white book — an official report issued by a government, usually bound in white.
- white rock — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, SE of Vancouver.
- white work — needlework done in white on fine white cloth, especially linen.
- whole milk — milk containing all its constituents as received from the cow or other milk-giving animal.
- wickerwork — material or products consisting of plaited or woven twigs or osiers; articles made of wicker.
- widowmaker — Alternative form of widow-maker.
- wikinomics — The theory and practice of mass collaboration using electronic communications.
- wikitorial — an online newspaper or magazine editorial that can be altered by readers
- willow oak — an oak, Quercus phellos, of the southwestern U.S., having entire, narrow leaves, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in the construction of buildings.
- willowlike — Resembling a willow tree or some aspect of one.
- windows 2k — Windows 2000
- winkle out — If you winkle information out of someone, you get it from them when they do not want to give it to you, often by tricking them.
- wireworker — a person skilled at using wire to make functional or decorative works
- womenfolks — Alternative form of womenfolk.
- wonderwork — a wonderful work; marvel; miracle.
- wood block — a block of wood engraved in relief, for printing from; woodcut.
- wood stork — wood ibis.
- woodblocks — Plural form of woodblock.
- woodchucks — Plural form of woodchuck.
- woodpecker — any of numerous climbing birds of the family Picidae, having a hard, chisellike bill that it hammers repeatedly into wood in search of insects, stiff tail feathers to assist in climbing, and usually more or less boldly patterned plumage.
- woodshrike — any of several species of shrike, including the common woodshrike, Tephrodornis pondicerianus, and the large woodshrike, Tephrodornis gularis
- woodworker — a worker in wood, as a carpenter, joiner, or cabinetmaker.
- woollyback — a person who lives in a region near, but not in, Liverpool
- woonsocket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- work ethic — a belief in the moral benefit and importance of work and its inherent ability to strengthen character.
- work force — the total number of workers in a specific undertaking: a holiday for the company's work force.
- work order — an order authorizing specific work, repairs, etc., to be done.
- work rules — a set of rules, usually established by one or more unions in an agreement with management, specifying the tasks to be done by each employee.
- work sheet — a sheet of paper on which a record of work, working time, etc. is kept
- work space — area used for work
- work train — a train that transports railroad workers, building materials, etc., to construction or maintenance assignments on the railroad.