10-letter words containing s, e, w, l
- 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
- 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.
- real wages — wages evaluated with reference to their purchasing power rather than to the money actually paid
- renewables — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- saleswoman — a woman who sells goods, services, etc.
- sallowness — of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
- salt water — water containing a large amount of salt.
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scapewheel — escape wheel.
- 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.
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- scrollwise — like a scroll, in a way similar to a scroll
- sea lawyer — a sailor inclined to question or complain about the orders given.
- sea walnut — a comb jelly, as of the genus Mnemiopsis, shaped like a walnut.
- seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
- self-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- self-wrong — wrong done to oneself.
- semiweekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
- semmelweis — Ignaz Philipp [ig-nahts fee-lip] /ˈɪg nɑts ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1818–65, Hungarian obstetrician.
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
- shadowless — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shield law — a law protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources of information.
- shieldwall — a protective wall formed by interlocking the shields of foot soldiers
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- show a leg — to get up in the morning
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- shower gel — liquid soap product
- showerless — without showers; rain-free
- shrew mole — a grayish-black mole, Neurotrichus gibbsii, of the western coast of the U.S. and Canada, that grows to a length of about 3 inches (7.6 cm).
- side-wheel — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- 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.
- simple vow — a public vow taken by a religious, under which property may be retained and marriage, though held to be illicit, is valid under canon law.
- skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
- skew lines — two or more lines that lie in different planes, are not parallel, and do not intersect
- sleep away — to spend in sleeping; sleep during
- sleep with — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- sleep-away — of or relating to a place at which one sleeps away from home: sleep-away camp.
- slide show — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
- sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
- smart well — A smart well is a well which has equipment that can be controlled either automatically or by an operator at a remote location.
- smile away — to drive away or get rid of by a smile or smiling