10-letter words containing n, o, s, w, i
- poisonwood — a tree, Metopium toxiferum, of southern Florida, that has compound leaves and yellowish, berrylike fruits and is poisonous to touch.
- printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- scowlingly — in a scowling manner
- shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
- shift down — When you shift down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- shopwindow — a window used for display of merchandise.
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- snow devil — a whirling column of snow
- snow train — a train that takes passengers to and from a winter resort area.
- snow-blind — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
- snow-white — white as snow.
- snowmaking — the creation of artificial snow at ski areas.
- snowmobile — Also called skimobile, snowcat. a motor vehicle with a revolving tread in the rear and steerable skis in the front, for traveling over snow.
- snowtubing — the sport of moving across snow on a large inflated inner tube
- solar wind — an emanation from the sun's corona consisting of a flow of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, that interacts with the magnetic field of the earth and other planetary bodies.
- son-in-law — the husband of one's daughter.
- songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
- splintwood — a thin flexible wood often used for making baskets
- springwood — the part of an annual ring of wood, characterized by large, thin-walled cells, formed during the first part of the growing season.
- springwort — a plant with magical powers, mentioned in fables and folklore but not identified
- sqlwindows — (programming, product) A package used to graphically develop MS-Windows client-server applications. Sold by Gupta Corporation.
- stick down — seal with an adhesive
- stolenwise — in a stealthy or secretive manner
- strip down — remove paint or wallpaper from
- swinestone — a type of limestone that emits an unpleasant odour when rubbed or struck
- swing door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
- swing loan — a bridge loan.
- swing vote — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swinnerton — Frank (Arthur) 1884–1982, English novelist and critic.
- tinseltown — Hollywood, California, as a center of the movie industry.
- townsville — a seaport on the E coast of Queensland, in E Australia.
- unsinnowed — made weak
- upgrowings — instances of growing upwards
- viewpoints — a place affording a view of something; position of observation: to sketch a river from the viewpoint of a bluff.
- wainscoted — Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
- waitperson — a waiter or waitress.
- wallopings — Plural form of walloping.
- washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- west point — a military reservation in SE New York, on the Hudson: U.S. Military Academy.
- whodunnits — Plural form of whodunnit.
- wikinomics — The theory and practice of mass collaboration using electronic communications.
- 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.
- windhovers — Plural form of windhover.
- 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.
- windows 2k — Windows 2000
- windows 94 — (operating system, humour) A facetious name for Windows 95, so called because it was originally meant to ship in 1994.
- windows 95 — (operating system) (Win95) Microsoft's successor to their Windows 3.11 operating system for IBM PCs. It was known as "Chicago" during development. Its release was originally scheduled for late 1994 but eventually happened on 11 Jul 1995, followed by Service Release 1 on 1995-12-31 and OSR2 (OEM Service Release 2) on 1996-08-24. In contrast to earlier versions, Windows 95 is a complete operating system rather than a graphical user interface running on top of MS-DOS. It provides 32-bit application support, pre-emptive multitasking, threading and built-in networking (TCP/IP, IPX, SLIP, PPP, and Windows Sockets). It includes MS-DOS 7.0, but takes over completely after booting. The graphical user interface, while similar to previous Windows versions, is significantly improved. Windows 95 has also been described as "32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition". The successor to Windows 95 was Windows 98.