10-letter words containing s, w, e
- crawlspace — (in a building) an area accessible by crawling, having a clearance less than human height, for access to plumbing or wiring, storage, etc.
- cross wire — cross hair (def 1).
- crown lens — a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
- cruisewear — clothing which is suitable for wearing while on a cruise
- curse word — a profane or obscene word, especially as used in anger or for emphasis.
- daisywheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- death wish — A death wish is a conscious or unconscious desire to die or be killed.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- decwindows — DEC's windowing environment based on the X Window System.
- denis howe — (person) Denis B. Howe (1960 -) Editor of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- dewberries — Plural form of dewberry.
- dexterwise — on or to the right hand side (of a heraldic shield)
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- disc wheel — a road wheel of a motor vehicle that has a round pressed disc in place of spokes
- discrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.
- disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- disendowed — Simple past tense and past participle of disendow.
- disendower — One who disendows.
- disentwine — (transitive) To free from being entwined or twisted; untwine.
- dish towel — cloth: for drying dishes
- dishtowels — Plural form of dishtowel.
- dishwasher — a person who washes dishes.
- disk wheel — a spokeless vehicular wheel, especially on automobiles, having a heavy circular pressed-steel disk mounted on the wheel hub and supporting the tire rim on its outer edge.
- disownment — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- do wonders — have a transforming effect
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
- downcomers — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downgrades — Plural form of downgrade.
- downscaled — Simple past tense and past participle of downscale.
- downslides — Plural form of downslide.
- downstater — A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York.
- downstream — upstream
- downstreet — Toward the lower part of a street.
- downstroke — a downward stroke, as of a machine part, piston, or the like.
- downtrends — Plural form of downtrend.
- downwashes — Plural form of downwash.
- draw slide — dark slide (def 1).
- draw-sheet — a sheet that can be easily removed from underneath a patient in a bed
- draw-slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.