10-letter words containing s, e, a, w
- flawlessly — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
- flop sweat — a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment
- flyswatter — A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- galleywest — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- gas worker — a gas engineer
- gearwheels — Plural form of gearwheel.
- glaswegian — of or characteristic of Glasgow or its inhabitants.
- go walkies — to be lost or stolen
- goldwasser — a liqueur flavored with spices, figs, lemons, and herbs, and having minute flakes of gold leaf in suspension.
- greasewood — a shrub, Sarcobatus vermiculatus, of the amaranth family, growing in alkaline regions of the western U.S., containing a small amount of oil.
- greatsword — Any generally straight bladed double edged sword large enough that it required the use of two hands to wield it effectively.
- greensward — green, grassy turf.
- guess what — used to announce news
- hagerstown — a city in NW Maryland.
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- hawk's-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
- hawseholes — Plural form of hawsehole.
- hawsepipes — Plural form of hawsepipe.
- heads down — [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- healthwise — With regard to health.
- heartworms — Plural form of heartworm.
- helmswoman — The female equivalent of a helmsman.
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- hollow sea — an ocean wave formation in which the rise from troughs to crests is very steep.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- housewares — (North America) Domestic utensils, especially for the kitchen.
- hume's law — the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
- in a sweat — perspiring
- insect wax — Chinese wax.
- inwardness — the state of being inward or internal: the inwardness of the body's organs.
- jackscrews — Plural form of jackscrew.
- james watt — James, 1736–1819, Scottish engineer and inventor.
- jasperware — a compact, opaque, cryptocrystalline variety of quartz, usually colored red: often used in decorative carvings.
- 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.
- jewel case — a small box or chest, often lined in a soft fabric and fitted with compartments, designed to hold jewelry.
- ladieswear — clothes designed for women
- landowners — Plural form of landowner.
- laser show — a display of coloured laser lights for entertainment purposes, often accompanying a music concert, etc
- lawfulness — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.