10-letter words containing n, e, w, d
- net-winged — having reticulate wing venation.
- netherward — bottom-most, lowest
- new candle — candela
- 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 london — a seaport in SE Connecticut, on the Thames River: naval base.
- new sweden — a colony established by Swedish settlers in 1638 along the Delaware River and captured by the Dutch in 1655: the only Swedish colony in America.
- newfangled — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
- news media — media1 (def 2).
- newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
- newshounds — Plural form of newshound.
- newsreader — a person who presents the news on a radio or television news broadcast; newscaster.
- newsstands — Plural form of newsstand.
- newsvendor — a person who sells newspapers or periodicals.
- nonallowed — Not allowed.
- 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.
- onion weed — a plant of Australia and New Zealand, Nuthoscordum inodorum, having a strong onion-like smell and reproducing from bulbs and seeds
- open wound — injury in which skin is broken
- orangewood — the hard, fine-grained, yellowish wood of the orange tree, used in inlaid work and fine turnery.
- owen sound — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Georgian Bay of Lake Huron: summer resort.
- pared-down — If you describe something as pared-down, you mean that it has no unnecessary features, and has been reduced to a very simple form.
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- plow under — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- power down — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- quiet down — stop talking so loudly
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- renownedly — celebrated; famous.
- sand wedge — a club with a flanged sole and a face angle of more than 50°, used in bunker shots to cut through sand, get under the ball, and lift it clear
- 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.
- second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
- sedge wren — a small wren, Cistothorus platensis, of the Americas, inhabiting wet, sedgy meadows.
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- sheet down — (of rain) to fall heavily in sheets
- shrewdness — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- sidewinder — a severe swinging blow from the side.
- sneezeweed — any of several coarse composite plants of the genus Helenium, the flowers of which resemble sunflowers and cause sneezing.
- sneezewood — a tree, Ptaeroxylon utile, native to southern Africa: family Ptaeroxylaceae
- snow devil — a whirling column of snow
- snow under — Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
- snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- spongewood — an Indian plant with a pith used in making tropical hats
- stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- steepdowne — very steep or precipitous
- stemwinder — a stemwinding watch.