10-letter words containing n, e, w, c
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- crownpiece — the piece forming or fitting the top of something
- czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
- decwindows — DEC's windowing environment based on the X Window System.
- discrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.
- down-cycle — business: move downward
- downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
- downcomers — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- downscaled — Simple past tense and past participle of downscale.
- force down — eat with difficulty
- french way — cunnilingus or fellatio.
- frenchweed — the penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- henchwoman — Feminine of henchman.
- henchwomen — Plural form of henchwoman.
- insect wax — Chinese wax.
- law centre — an office, usually staffed by professional volunteers, at which free legal advice and information are provided to the general public
- law french — Anglo-French as used in legal proceedings and lawbooks in England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th century, some terms of which are still in use.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- low-income — of or relating to those with a relatively small income.
- low-necked — (of a dress or other garment) cut low so as to leave the neck and shoulders exposed; décolleté.
- lug wrench — a wrench for loosening or tightening lug nuts.
- mankiewicz — Joseph L(eo) 1909–1993, U.S. motion-picture director, producer, and writer.
- new canaan — a town in SW Connecticut.
- new candle — candela
- new castle — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- new comedy — Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.
- new france — the French colonies and possessions in North America up to 1763.
- new mexico — a state in the SW United States. 121,666 sq. mi. (315,115 sq. km). Capital: Santa Fe. Abbreviation: NM (for use with zip code), N. Mex., N.M.
- new quebec — a region of E Canada, formerly the Ungava district of Northwest Territories (1895–1912), extending from the line of the Eastmain and Hamilton Rivers north between Hudson Bay and Labrador; absorbed by Quebec in 1912; contains extensive iron deposits. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- new-collar — pertaining to or designating middle-class wage earners holding jobs in a service industry.
- newsagency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- newscaster — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- nonce word — a word coined and used only for a particular occasion. Compare neologism (def 1).
- nonce-word — a word coined and used only for a particular occasion. Compare neologism (def 1).
- oceanwards — Oceanward.
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- pin wrench — a wrench having a pin for insertion into the heads of certain bolts to drive them. Compare spanner (def 2).
- quincewort — Squinancywort.
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
- screw nail — drive screw.
- screw pine — any tropical Asian tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots, and bearing an edible fruit.
- screwiness — the state or quality of being screwy
- second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
- snow cover — a layer of snow on the ground.