10-letter words containing l, o, w, s
- swiss roll — A swiss roll is a cylindrical cake made from a thin flat sponge which is covered with jam or cream on one side, then rolled up.
- sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
- sword lily — a gladiolus.
- tinseltown — Hollywood, California, as a center of the movie industry.
- townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.
- two folds' — a unit of stage scenery consisting of two flats hinged together.
- wagonloads — Plural form of wagonload.
- waistcloth — a loincloth.
- walk socks — men's knee-length stockings
- walkabouts — Plural form of walkabout.
- walkshorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- wallboards — Plural form of wallboard.
- wallopings — Plural form of walloping.
- wallposter — (in China) a usually lengthy notice, complaint, personal opinion, etc., handwritten in large characters and hung on walls in cities, as a means of communication and for criticizing or attacking government policy or politicians.
- war clouds — sign of trouble ahead
- warlordism — a military leader, especially of a warlike nation.
- washcloths — Plural form of washcloth.
- watcom sql — (database, product) A family of databases from Watcom International, based on scalable technology and a SQL database engine. Version 4.0 adds stored procedures and triggers. It is designed for environments ranging from large departmental networks with a diverse range of PC client systems, to peer-to-peer workgroups, to stand-alone PCs. It is available in stand-alone versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2 and MS DOS; and multi-user network server versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, NetWare NLM and MS DOS.
- water loss — evapotranspiration (def 2).
- weaponless — Lacking a weapon.
- weasel out — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
- weightloss — (uncountable) The loss of bodily weight.
- well-shown — a past participle of show.
- welsh pony — one of a breed of small, sturdy ponies raised originally in Wales.
- welshwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.
- werewolves — (in folklore and superstition) a human being who has changed into a wolf, or is capable of assuming the form of a wolf, while retaining human intelligence.
- whaleboats — Plural form of whaleboat.
- whalebones — Plural form of whalebone.
- wheelhorse — a person who works steadily or hard
- wheelhouse — pilothouse.
- whirlpools — Plural form of whirlpool.
- whole rest — a rest equivalent in duration to a whole note.
- whole step — an interval of two semitones, as A-B or B-C♯; a major second.
- wholefoods — Plural form of wholefood.
- wholesaled — Simple past tense and past participle of wholesale.
- wholesaler — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wholesales — Plural form of wholesale.
- wholescale — Wholesale (extensive).
- wholesomer — Comparative form of wholesome.
- wild goose — any undomesticated goose, especially the greylag of Britain or the Canada goose.
- wild horse — horse which is untamed
- williamson — Mount, a mountain in E California, in the Sierra Nevada N of Mount Whitney. 14,375 feet (4382 meters).
- wilson dam — a dam on the Tennessee River, in NW Alabama, at Muscle Shoals: a part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. 4862 feet (1482 meters) long; 137 feet (42 meters) high.
- 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.
- windowsill — the sill under a window.
- 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.
- wobbliness — shaky; unsteady.
- woefulness — The quality of being woeful.
- wolfensohn — James D., known as Jim. born 1933, US businessman and international official, born in Australia; president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank) (1995–2005); honorary knighthood (1995)
- wolffishes — Plural form of wolffish.