10-letter words containing s, e, g, w
- shower gel — liquid soap product
- siegeworks — constructions built by a besieging force
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
- snow gauge — an instrument for measuring the depth of snow.
- snow goose — a white North American wild goose, previously classified as the species Chen hyperborea but now considered the light color phase of the blue goose, C. caerulescens.
- snow-goose — a white North American wild goose, previously classified as the species Chen hyperborea but now considered the light color phase of the blue goose, C. caerulescens.
- songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
- spongeware — earthenware decorated with color applied with a sponge.
- spongewood — an Indian plant with a pith used in making tropical hats
- stage wait — an unintentional pause during a performance, usually caused by a performer's or stagehand's missing a cue.
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
- swedenborg — Emanuel [ih-man-yoo-uh l;; Swedish e-mah-noo-uh l] /ɪˈmæn yu əl;; Swedish ɛˈmɑ nu əl/ (Show IPA), (Emanuel Swedberg) 1688–1772, Swedish scientist, philosopher, and mystic.
- sweet flag — an aroid marsh plant, Acorus calamus, having swordlike leaves, small greenish flowers, and aromatic roots
- sweet gale — a shrub, Myrica gale, of northern swamp regions, having yellow catkin-like flowers and aromatic leaves: family Myricaceae
- sweetening — something that sweetens food, beverages, etc., as sugar, saccharine, etc.
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swing vote — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- swivel gun — a gun mounted on a pedestal so that it can be turned from side to side or up and down.
- unswerving — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- wage rates — rates of pay based on per unit of production or per period of worktime on the job
- wage scale — a schedule of wages paid workers performing related tasks in an industry or shop.
- wage slave — a person who works for a wage, especially with total and immediate dependency on the income derived from such labor.
- wages bill — the total amount of money that a company or organization pays to its employees
- wages slip — a small piece of paper with a printed record of a person's wages
- wagon seat — a plain, unupholstered settee, usually with a slat back, for use either indoors or in a wagon.
- wagonettes — Plural form of wagonette.
- waldgraves — Plural form of waldgrave.
- wanderings — Plural form of wandering.
- warmongers — Plural form of warmonger.
- waste gate — a valve in a turbocharger unit that automatically opens when a predetermined engine speed is reached, so that some of the exhaust gas to the turbine is diverted and the engine speed does not become excessive.
- water sign — any of the three astrological signs, Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, that are grouped together because of the shared attributes of sensitivity and emotionalism.
- waveguides — Plural form of waveguide.
- weaselling — (British) present participle of weasel.
- web design — a person who plans, designs, creates, and often maintains websites.
- webcasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- websurfing — Present participle of websurf.
- weeknights — Plural form of weeknight.
- weightiest — Superlative form of weighty.
- weightings — Plural form of weighting.
- weightless — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- weightloss — (uncountable) The loss of bodily weight.
- wellspring — the head or source of a spring, stream, river, etc.; fountainhead.
- west fargo — a city in SE North Dakota: suburb of Fargo.
- what goes? — what's happening?
- wheatgrass — any of several wheatlike grasses of the genus Agropyron, grown for forage in the western U.S.
- whiskering — (fashion) The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a