10-letter words containing s, w, a, r
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- microwatts — Plural form of microwatt.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- miswandred — having strayed or become lost or gone off course
- narrowcast — to aim a program or programming at a specific, limited audience or sales market.
- narrowness — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
- new year's — the year approaching or newly begun.
- newsbreaks — Plural form of newsbreak.
- newscaster — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
- newsmakers — Plural form of newsmaker.
- newspapers — Plural form of newspaper.
- newsreader — a person who presents the news on a radio or television news broadcast; newscaster.
- norsewoman — a female member of the peoples of ancient Norway or Scandinavia
- northwards — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- nutrasweet — a brand of artificial sweetener
- oceanwards — Oceanward.
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
- 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.
- paper wasp — any of several social wasps, as the yellow jacket or hornet, that construct a nest of a paperlike substance consisting of chewed plant material.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pass water — to urinate
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- planer saw — a hollow-ground circular saw for ripping and cutting across grain, having raker teeth for clearing away the chips cut by the cutting teeth.
- power base — a source of authority or influence, especially in politics, founded on support by an organized body of voters, ethnic minority, economic class, etc.: His election as governor gives him a power base for seeking the presidency.
- presswoman — a female reporter
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- quartersaw — to saw (lumber) from quarter sections of logs so that the annual rings in any board form at least a 45° angle with the faces of the board.
- queensware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
- radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- ransomware — malware planted illegally in a computer or mobile device that disables its operation or access to its data until the owner or operator pays to regain control or access.
- raree show — peep show.
- 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.
- rawsthorne — Alan. 1905–71, English composer, whose works include three symphonies, several concertos, and a set of Symphonic Studies (1939)
- 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.
- restharrow — a low, pink-flowered European shrub, Ononis spinosa, of the legume family, having tough roots that hinder the plow or harrow.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- rightwards — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- riverwards — towards a river
- rose-water — having the aroma or fragrance of rose water.
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
- sacred cow — an individual, organization, institution, etc., considered to be exempt from criticism or questioning.
- salt water — water containing a large amount of salt.