10-letter words containing s, e, r, i, w
- 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.
- streetwise — street-smart.
- supertwist — the effect of twisting light rays to produce a high-resolution liquid crystal display
- swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
- sweatshirt — a loose, long-sleeved, collarless pullover of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, with close-fitting or elastic cuffs and sometimes a drawstring at the waist, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- sweetbrier — a rose, Rosa eglanteria, of Europe and central Asia, having a tall stem, stout, hooked prickles often mixed with bristles, and single, pink flowers.
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swimfeeder — a device containing bait, attached to the line to ensure the gradual baiting of the swim from under the surface
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- swinnerton — Frank (Arthur) 1884–1982, English novelist and critic.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- swiveltree — swingletree.
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- tweedsmuir — Baron, Buchan, John.
- twin-screw — (of a vessel) having two screw propellers, which usually revolve in opposite directions.
- two rivers — a city in E Wisconsin.
- two-suiter — a suitcase designed to hold two suits and additional smaller items.
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- unswerving — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- viewership — an audience of viewers, especially of television, either generally or of a particular kind or program: Viewership is at its peak in the evening hours.
- wabiserver — (operating system, tool) An addition to Wabi which allows the Microsoft Windows application to run on a server, e.g. a powerful Intel-based computer, with users accessing it from their desktop which can be a cheap computer such as an X terminal.
- waitperson — a waiter or waitress.
- waitress's — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- waitresses — Plural form of waitress.
- wanderings — Plural form of wandering.
- war crimes — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- wardenship — The state of being a warden.
- warranties — Plural form of warranty.
- warrantise — a warranty; security
- warrioress — a woman who is a warrior
- washateria — a launderette.
- washeteria — washateria.
- 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.
- water-sick — (of soil) unproductive due to excessive watering or salt residues from irrigation.
- wateriness — the state or condition of being watery or diluted.
- watersider — a wharf labourer
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- webmeister — (computing, informal) A webmaster.
- websterian — pertaining to or characteristic of Daniel Webster, his political theories, or his oratory.
- websterite — aluminite.
- websurfing — Present participle of websurf.
- weiss beer — a light-colored, highly effervescent beer prepared largely from malted wheat.
- weisswurst — a variety of bratwurst in which the meat is cooked before being stuffed into the casing
- weizsacker — Carl Friedrich von [kahrl free-drikh fuh n] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- wellspring — the head or source of a spring, stream, river, etc.; fountainhead.