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10-letter words containing s, t, a, l, w

  • 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
  • sweet talk — cajolery, persuasion by flattery
  • sweet-talk — to use cajoling words.
  • switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
  • twin falls — a city in S Idaho.
  • waistcloth — a loincloth.
  • waistlines — Plural form of waistline.
  • walkabouts — Plural form of walkabout.
  • walkshorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
  • wallcharts — Plural form of wallchart.
  • wallposter — (in China) a usually lengthy notice, complaint, personal opinion, etc., handwritten in large characters and hung on walls in cities, as a means of communication and for criticizing or attacking government policy or politicians.
  • wanderlust — a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.
  • wanrestful — uneasy or restless
  • washcloths — Plural form of washcloth.
  • waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
  • waste well — absorbing well.
  • wastefully — In a wasteful manner.
  • wastelands — Plural form of wasteland.
  • watch list — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
  • watcom sql — (database, product)   A family of databases from Watcom International, based on scalable technology and a SQL database engine. Version 4.0 adds stored procedures and triggers. It is designed for environments ranging from large departmental networks with a diverse range of PC client systems, to peer-to-peer workgroups, to stand-alone PCs. It is available in stand-alone versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2 and MS DOS; and multi-user network server versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, NetWare NLM and MS DOS.
  • water loss — evapotranspiration (def 2).
  • water seal — a small amount of water contained in the trap of a drain to prevent the passage of foul smells
  • waterfalls — Plural form of waterfall.
  • waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
  • wealthiest — Superlative form of wealthy.
  • weasel out — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
  • welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
  • west allis — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
  • westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • westwardly — having a westward direction or situation: the westwardly migration of the 1850s.
  • whaleboats — Plural form of whaleboat.
  • whip-stall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
  • whipstalls — Plural form of whipstall.
  • whirlblast — a blast of wind
  • white lias — a type of rock composed of pale-coloured limestones and marls
  • white sale — a sale of sheets, pillowcases, and other white goods.
  • whitewalls — Plural form of whitewall.
  • wiesenthalSimon, 1908–2005, Austrian Holocaust survivor and hunter of Nazi war criminals.
  • wild beast — savage animal
  • willemstad — the main island of the Netherlands Antilles, off the NW coast of Venezuela. 173 sq. mi. (448 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
  • winlestrae — windlestraw.
  • winstanley — Gerrard. ?1609–60, English radical; leader of the Diggers (1649–50) and author of the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652)
  • worktables — Plural form of worktable.
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