10-letter words containing s, e, r, i, w
- midwestern — Also, Midwestern. Middle Western.
- mirrorwise — having the left and right sides reversed
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
- miswandred — having strayed or become lost or gone off course
- miswritten — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- miterworts — Plural form of miterwort.
- newswriter — A journalist who writes the scripts for a newsreader.
- no worries — it is not a problem
- nonswimmer — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
- overwisely — in a pretentiously wise manner
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
- press view — a showing of a film exclusively for the benefit of the press, before it goes on general release
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- pull wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- 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)
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- reichswehr — the 100,000-man army Germany was permitted to maintain under the Versailles Treaty after World War I: the limit was secretly exceeded.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- riverwards — towards a river
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- schweitzer — Albert, 1875–1965, Alsatian writer, missionary, doctor, and musician in Africa: Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
- schwitters — Kurt [koo rt] /kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1948, German artist.
- screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
- screw nail — drive screw.
- screw pile — a pile that is used for the foundations of bridges, lighthouses, etc., and has a screwlike lower end for drilling through and taking firm hold in compacted material.
- screw pine — any tropical Asian tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots, and bearing an edible fruit.
- screwiness — the state or quality of being screwy
- scrollwise — like a scroll, in a way similar to a scroll
- sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
- sidewinder — a severe swinging blow from the side.
- siegeworks — constructions built by a besieging force
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- silverware — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
- silverweed — a plant, Potentilla anserina, of the rose family, the leaves of which have a silvery pubescence on the underside.
- silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
- skywritten — created by the process of skywriting
- songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
- spider web — the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.
- spiderwork — a thing which has the appearance of a spider's web
- spiderwort — any plant of the genus Tradescantia, having blue, purple, or rose-colored flowers.
- squarewise — in a square position or shape
- stemwinder — a stemwinding watch.
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.