10-letter words containing l, e, w, d, s
- silverweed — a plant, Potentilla anserina, of the rose family, the leaves of which have a silvery pubescence on the underside.
- skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
- slide show — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
- sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
- snow devil — a whirling column of snow
- snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
- speedwalks — power walking.
- sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
- waldensian — a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.
- waldgraves — Plural form of waldgrave.
- wanderlust — a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.
- waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
- wastelands — Plural form of wasteland.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- weeldlesse — not capable of being handled; unwieldy
- westwardly — having a westward direction or situation: the westwardly migration of the 1850s.
- wholefoods — Plural form of wholefood.
- wholesaled — Simple past tense and past participle of wholesale.
- wieldiness — the quality or state of being easily handled
- wild beast — savage animal
- wild geese — any undomesticated goose, especially the greylag of Britain or the Canada goose.
- wild goose — any undomesticated goose, especially the greylag of Britain or the Canada goose.
- wild horse — horse which is untamed
- wild senna — a subshrubby senna, Cassia marilandica, of the eastern U.S., having yellow flowers.
- wildebeest — gnu.
- wilderness — a wooded area in NE Virginia: several battles fought here in 1864 between armies of Grant and Lee.
- willemstad — the main island of the Netherlands Antilles, off the NW coast of Venezuela. 173 sq. mi. (448 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
- wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- wind shelf — smoke shelf.
- windlassed — Simple past tense and past participle of windlass.
- windlasses — (nautical) Plural form of windlass.
- windlessly — Without any wind.
- windowless — an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
- windshield — a shield of glass, in one or more sections, projecting above and across the dashboard of an automobile.
- wisdomless — the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.
- wonderless — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- wood louse — any of certain small, terrestrial crustaceans of the genera Oniscus, Armadillidium, etc., having a flattened, elliptical body.
- wordlessly — In a wordless manner.
- worldlines — Plural form of worldline.
- worldscale — the standard scale of freight rates for oil tankers
- worldviews — Plural form of worldview.