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10-letter words containing n, i, t, w

  • weeknights — Plural form of weeknight.
  • weight man — a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
  • weightings — Plural form of weighting.
  • 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 irian — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • west point — a military reservation in SE New York, on the Hudson: U.S. Military Academy.
  • westernise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of westernize.
  • westernism — a word, idiom, or practice characteristic of people of the Occident or of the western U.S.
  • westernize — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
  • whereuntil — until which
  • whethering — (obsolete) The retention of the afterbirth in cows.
  • whippeting — the sport of racing whippets
  • white line — a stripe of white paint, tiles, or the like, that marks the center or outer edge of a road.
  • white lung — asbestosis.
  • white nile — the part of the Nile that flows NE to Khartoum, Sudan. About 500 miles (800 km) long.
  • white pine — a large, irregularly branched pine, Pinus strobus, of eastern North America, having gray bark and yielding a light-colored, soft, light wood of great commercial importance.
  • white wine — wine having a yellowish to amber color derived from the light-colored grapes used in production, or from dark grapes whose skins, pulp, and seeds have been removed before fermentation.
  • whiteprint — a proof print made by means of the diazo process.
  • whitethorn — a hawthorn, Crataegus laevigata, having white flowers.
  • whitmonday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
  • whitsunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
  • whittlings — the act of a person who whittles.
  • whodunnits — Plural form of whodunnit.
  • wiesenthal — Simon, 1908–2005, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals.
  • wilderment — The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment.
  • willingest — Superlative form of willing.
  • wilmington — a seaport in N Delaware, on the Delaware River.
  • winceyette — a plain-weave cotton fabric with slightly raised two-sided nap
  • winchester — (in the Middle Ages) a kingdom, later an earldom, in S England. Capital: Winchester.
  • wind chest — a chamber containing the air supply for the reeds or pipes of an organ.
  • wind plant — a grouping of devices, consisting of a tower, propellers, alternator, generator, and storage batteries, designed to produce electricity by converting the mechanical force of wind on blades or a rotor into electricity.
  • wind shaft — the shaft driven by the sails of a windmill.
  • wind-swept — open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.
  • wind-tight — so tight as to prevent passage of wind or air.
  • window tax — a tax on windows in houses levied between 1696 and 1851
  • windows nt — (operating system)   (Windows New Technology, NT) Microsoft's 32-bit operating system developed from what was originally intended to be OS/2 3.0 before Microsoft and IBM ceased joint development of OS/2. NT was designed for high end workstations (Windows NT 3.1), servers (Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server), and corporate networks (NT 4.0 Enterprise Server). The first release was Windows NT 3.1. Unlike Windows 3.1, which was a graphical environment that ran on top of MS-DOS, Windows NT is a complete operating system. To the user it looks like Windows 3.1, but it has true multi-threading, built in networking, security, and memory protection. It is based on a microkernel, with 32-bit addressing for up to 4Gb of RAM, virtualised hardware access to fully protect applications, installable file systems, such as FAT, HPFS and NTFS, built-in networking, multi-processor support, and C2 security. NT is also designed to be hardware independent. Once the machine specific part - the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) - has been ported to a particular machine, the rest of the operating system should theorertically compile without alteration. A version of NT for DEC's Alpha machines was planned (September 1993). NT needs a fast 386 or equivalent, at least 12MB of RAM (preferably 16MB) and at least 75MB of free disk space. NT 4.0 was followed by Windows 2000.
  • windstorms — Plural form of windstorm.
  • windy city — Chicago, Ill. (used as a nickname).
  • winetaster — a critic, writer, buyer, or other professional who tests the quality of wine by tasting.
  • 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.
  • winlestrae — windlestraw.
  • winningest — winning most often: the winningest coach in college basketball.
  • winnow out — If you winnow out part of a group of things or people, you identify the part that is not useful or relevant and the part that is.
  • winstanley — Gerrard. ?1609–60, English radical; leader of the Diggers (1649–50) and author of the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652)
  • winter war — the war of the winter of 1939–40 between Finland and the USSR after which the Finns surrendered the Karelian Isthmus to the USSR
  • winterfeed — to feed (cattle, sheep, etc.) during the winter when pasturage is not available.
  • winterized — Simple past tense and past participle of winterize.
  • winterkill — an act or instance of winterkilling.
  • winterless — Without a winter.
  • wintersome — (archaic) A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.
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