10-letter words containing r, a, w
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardwarily — /hard-weir'*-lee/ In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective "hardwary" is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
- hardwiring — a fixed connection between electrical and electronic components and devices by means of wires (as distinguished from a wireless connection).
- harm's way — danger; a dangerous situation: to get out of harm's way during a storm.
- harmsworth — Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe, 1865–1922, English journalist, publisher, and politician.
- hashbrowns — Alternative spelling of hash browns.
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- heartworms — Plural form of heartworm.
- heath wren — either of two ground-nesting warblers of southern Australia, Hylacola pyrrhopygia or H. cauta, noted for their song and their powers of mimicry
- heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- higher law — an ethical or religious principle considered as taking precedence over the laws of society, and to which one may appeal in order to justify disobedience to a constitution or enacted law with which it conflicts.
- hillwalker — a person who goes hillwalking
- hitherward — hither.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- hollowware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- housewares — (North America) Domestic utensils, especially for the kitchen.
- hurlbarrow — a wheelbarrow
- hyperaware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- imari ware — Japanese porcelain noted for its rich floral underglaze decoration in iron-red, blue, and gold, and later copied in China and Europe.
- in a whirl — If a person or their mind is in a whirl, they are very confused or excited.
- in the raw — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
- interweave — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- inwardness — the state of being inward or internal: the inwardness of the body's organs.
- irishwoman — a woman born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- iron-jawed — having a jaw of or like iron: an iron-jawed press; an iron-jawed fighter.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jackscrews — Plural form of jackscrew.
- jackstraws — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- janus word — a word that has opposite or nearly opposite meanings, as cleave, meaning ‘to adhere closely’ and ‘to part or split’.
- jasperware — a compact, opaque, cryptocrystalline variety of quartz, usually colored red: often used in decorative carvings.
- jaw's-harp — Jew's harp.
- jawbreaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jaywalkers — Plural form of jaywalker.
- jew's harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
- jew's-harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
- johnny raw — a novice; new recruit
- king prawn — any of several large prawns of the genus Penaeus, which are fished commercially in Australian waters
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- korean war — the war, begun on June 25, 1950, between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, aided by the United States and other United Nations members forming a United Nations armed force: truce signed July 27, 1953.
- labour law — those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions