10-letter words containing n, e, t, w, o
- tinseltown — Hollywood, California, as a center of the movie industry.
- tonic wine — a wine, usually fortified, generally consumed for its supposed invigorating effects
- top twenty — the twenty most important or successful items in a particular list
- towel ring — a circular hoop in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- town clerk — a town official who keeps records and issues licenses.
- town crier — (formerly) a person employed by a town to make public announcements or proclamations, usually by shouting in the streets.
- town house — a house in the city, especially as distinguished from a house in the country owned by the same person.
- townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.
- trade down — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- twenty-one — a cardinal number, 20 plus 1.
- twenty-two — a cardinal number, 20 plus 2.
- twentyfold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
- twice-born — Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.
- twinflower — either of two slender, creeping, evergreen, caprifoliaceous plants, Linnaea borealis, of Europe, or L. americana, of North America, having pink or purplish nodding flowers borne in pairs on threadlike stalks.
- two oceans — an annual road marathon run in Cape Town, South Africa
- two-handed — having two hands.
- two-hander — a play for two actors
- unbestowed — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- underthrow — to throw a ball or other object short of (the intended receiver or target)
- underwrote — simple past tense of underwrite.
- viewpoints — a place affording a view of something; position of observation: to sketch a river from the viewpoint of a bluff.
- wagon seat — a plain, unupholstered settee, usually with a slat back, for use either indoors or in a wagon.
- wagonettes — Plural form of wagonette.
- wainscoted — Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
- waitperson — a waiter or waitress.
- wantonness — (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
- war bonnet — an American Indian headdress consisting of a headband with a tail of ornamental feathers.
- watchwomen — Plural form of watchwoman.
- water down — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- waterborne — floating or moving on water; supported by water: The ship was waterborne ten months after the keel was laid.
- waterfront — land on the edge of a body of water.
- watermelon — the large, roundish or elongated fruit of a trailing vine, Citrullus lanata, of the gourd family, having a hard, green rind and a sweet, juicy, usually pink or red pulp.
- wave front — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- weak point — an area of weakness
- well-noted — well-known; celebrated; famous: a noted scholar.
- well-toned — any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones.
- wellington — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
- west point — a military reservation in SE New York, on the Hudson: U.S. Military Academy.
- west saxon — the Old English dialect of the West Saxon kingdom, dominant after a.d. c850 and the medium of nearly all the literary remains of Old English.
- wetterhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 12,149 feet (3715 meters).
- wheatstone — Sir Charles, 1802–75, English physicist and inventor.
- whetstones — Plural form of whetstone.
- whitethorn — a hawthorn, Crataegus laevigata, having white flowers.
- whole note — a note equivalent in duration to four quarter notes.
- whole tone — an interval of two semitones, as A-B or B-C♯; a major second.
- 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.
- wintersome — (archaic) A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.
- withholden — withheld