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10-letter words containing o, n, w, a

  • 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.
  • part owner — a person who shares in the ownership of something
  • pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
  • phoney war — A phoney war is when two opposing groups are openly hostile towards each other, as if they were at war, but there is no real fighting.
  • piano wire — a very thin steel wire of high tensile strength.
  • pitchwoman — a female pitchman
  • poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
  • powerplant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • powertrain — (in a motorized vehicle) the whole mechanism by which power is generated and transmitted to the road, surrounding air, water, etc
  • presswoman — a female reporter
  • prizewoman — a female prize winner
  • rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
  • randomwise — in a random manner
  • range wool — the wool of sheep raised west of the Mississippi River, especially in Washington and the Rocky Mountain States.
  • ransomware — malware planted illegally in a computer or mobile device that disables its operation or access to its data until the owner or operator pays to regain control or access.
  • rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
  • rawsthorne — Alan. 1905–71, English composer, whose works include three symphonies, several concertos, and a set of Symphonic Studies (1939)
  • rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
  • rowanberry — a mountain ash tree
  • rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
  • saleswoman — a woman who sells goods, services, etc.
  • sallowness — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
  • sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • sappanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
  • scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
  • scotswoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland; Scot.
  • scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
  • seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
  • 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.
  • shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
  • shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shantytown — a section, as of a city or town, characterized by shanties and crudely built houses.
  • showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
  • smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
  • small town — Small town is used when referring to small places, usually in the United States, where people are friendly, honest, and polite, or to the people there. Small town is also sometimes used to suggest that someone has old-fashioned ideas.
  • small-town — of, relating to, or characteristic of a town or village: a typical, small-town general store.
  • smash down — If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
  • snow apple — Fameuse.
  • snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
  • snow gauge — an instrument for measuring the depth of snow.
  • snow grass — any of various grey-green grasses of the genus Poa, of SE Australian mountain regions
  • snow plant — a leafless, parasitic plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, of the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada in California, having a stout spike of bright red flowers, a thickly scaled stem, and a corallike mass of roots.
  • snow train — a train that takes passengers to and from a winter resort area.
  • snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
  • snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
  • snowmaking — the creation of artificial snow at ski areas.
  • 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.
  • sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
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