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

  • 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.
  • raw sienna — a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
  • rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
  • 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)
  • renewables — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • rewriteman — a newspaper employee who writes articles from available information or who reworks the copy written by reporters.
  • 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.
  • saran wrap — Saran wrap is a thin, clear, stretchy plastic which you use to cover food to keep it fresh.
  • scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
  • screw bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
  • screw nail — drive screw.
  • scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
  • seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
  • snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
  • snow grass — any of various grey-green grasses of the genus Poa, of SE Australian mountain regions
  • snow train — a train that takes passengers to and from a winter resort area.
  • 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.
  • spongeware — earthenware decorated with color applied with a sponge.
  • stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
  • sternwards — towards the stern; astern
  • stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
  • strandwolf — brown hyena.
  • straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
  • superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
  • swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
  • swinglebar — a whiffletree.
  • sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
  • sword cane — a cane or walking stick having a hollow shaft that serves as a sheath for a sword or dagger.
  • tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
  • tawny port — a type of port that is aged in wood for at least 7 years, giving it a 'nutty' flavour; its colour is tawny, as opposed to the red of a ruby port
  • track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • trade down — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
  • trade wind — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • trawlerman — a person working on a fishing trawler at sea
  • trojan war — a ten-year war waged by the confederated Greeks under Agamemnon against the Trojans to avenge the abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, by Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam, and ending in the plundering and burning of Troy.
  • twin-track — involving two simultaneous actions or processes
  • two-hander — a play for two actors
  • un-awarded — to give as due or merited; assign or bestow: to award prizes.
  • un-awkward — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
  • unanswered — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
  • underdrawn — to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.
  • underjawed — with a heavy or underhung lower jaw
  • underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
  • underwater — existing or occurring under water.
  • unrewarded — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
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