10-letter words containing n, w
- blowing up — a reprimand
- blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
- bondswoman — a woman who is bound or who by bond becomes surety for another.
- bone white — any of various shades of grayish or yellowish white
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- bouncedown — an occasion of restarting play by the umpire bouncing the ball
- bow window — a bay window in the shape of a curve
- bowed down — weighed down; troubled
- bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- box wrench — a wrench with a completely enclosed head, used to hold and turn nuts and bolts
- boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
- brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
- browbeaten — intimidated
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- brown bear — a large ferocious brownish bear, Ursus arctos, inhabiting temperate forests of North America, Europe, and Asia
- brown belt — a level of expertise just below that of black belt
- brown bent — a common grass, Agrostis canina, of North America, used for lawns and putting greens because its blades can be clipped very short without injury to the plant.
- brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
- brown coat — arriccio.
- brown deer — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
- brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
- brown nose — a form of light sensitization in cattle
- brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
- brown spot — a disease of many plants, characterized by irregular, brownish lesions on the fruit and foliage and by stem cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Ceratophorum setosum or Cephalosporium apii.
- brown-nose — to curry favor; behave obsequiously.
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- brownnoser — a person who brownnoses
- brownprint — a process of photographic reproduction using a mixture of iron and silver salts to produce a white image on a sepia ground.
- brownshirt — Nazi stormtrooper
- brownstone — In the United States, a brownstone is a type of house which was built during the 19th century. Brownstones have a front that is made from a reddish-brown stone.
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- build down — a process for reducing armaments, especially the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed.
- build-down — a gradual decrease in nuclear weapons, armed forces, etc., esp. by an agreement in which a smaller number of newer weapons would replace older ones
- bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
- bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
- button tow — a kind of ski lift for one person consisting of a pole that has a circular plate at the bottom and is attached to a moving cable. The person places the pole between his or her legs so that the plate takes his or her weight
- buttondown — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
- buttonwood — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- cabin crew — The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
- callowness — immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.