10-letter words containing n, w
- countdowns — Plural form of countdown.
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- coweringly — in a cowering manner
- cowpersons — Plural form of cowperson.
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- crewelling — the art of making crewelwork
- cross wind — a wind blowing across the course or path of a ship, aircraft, etc.
- cross-town — going across or following a route across a town
- crosswinds — Plural form of crosswind.
- crown fire — a forest fire that spreads along treetops, often at great speeds.
- crown gall — a disease of peaches, apples, roses, grapes, etc., characterized by the formation of galls on the roots or stems usually at or below ground level, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
- crown land — (in the United Kingdom) land belonging to the Crown
- crown lens — a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
- 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
- currawongs — Plural form of currawong.
- czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
- dairywoman — a woman who owns, manages, or works in a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- decwindows — DEC's windowing environment based on the X Window System.
- delawarean — of or relating to the state of Delaware or its inhabitants
- delta wing — a triangular sweptback aircraft wing
- denis howe — (person) Denis B. Howe (1960 -) Editor of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- dewatering — the act of removing water
- dinnerware — china, glasses, and silver used for table service.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.
- discrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.
- disendowed — Simple past tense and past participle of disendow.
- disendower — One who disendows.
- disentwine — (transitive) To free from being entwined or twisted; untwine.
- disownment — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- do wonders — have a transforming effect
- dog warden — dogcatcher.
- don't know — a person who has no opinion or is undecided, as in answering an item on a public-opinion poll.
- don't-know — a person who has no opinion or is undecided, as in answering an item on a public-opinion poll.
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- down under — Australia or New Zealand.
- down-cycle — business: move downward
- down-river — Something that is moving down-river is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is down-river is towards the mouth of a river.