10-letter words containing s, w, i, a
- healthwise — With regard to health.
- in a sweat — perspiring
- insect wax — Chinese wax.
- inwardness — the state of being inward or internal: the inwardness of the body's organs.
- irishwoman — a woman born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- ki-swahili — Swahili (def 2).
- ladieswear — clothes designed for women
- lewis acid — any substance capable of forming a covalent bond with a base by accepting a pair of electrons from it.
- lewis base — any substance capable of forming a covalent bond with an acid by transferring a pair of electrons to it.
- lightwaves — Plural form of lightwave.
- lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
- malinowski — Bronislaw Kasper [bron-uh-slahf kas-per;; Polish braw-nee-slahf kahs-puh r] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɑf ˈkæs pər;; Polish brɔˈni slɑf ˈkɑs pər/ (Show IPA), 1884–1942, Polish anthropologist in the U.S.
- 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.
- miles away — If you say that someone is miles away, you mean that they are unaware of what is happening around them because they are thinking about something else.
- milliwatts — Plural form of milliwatt.
- miswandred — having strayed or become lost or gone off course
- mosaic law — the ancient law of the Hebrews, ascribed to Moses.
- news media — media1 (def 2).
- nighthawks — Plural form of nighthawk.
- nowcasting — the preparation or production of nowcasts
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- 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.
- 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.
- pantywaist — Informal. a weak, effeminate man; sissy.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- pipsissewa — any evergreen plant of the genus Chimaphila, especially C. umbellata, the leaves of which are used medicinally for their tonic, diuretic, and astringent properties.
- pit sawing — a method of sawing logs or timbers, as into boards, in which the piece to be cut is laid horizontally across a pit and cut by a saw operated vertically by two people, one above and one in the pit below the piece.
- poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
- screw nail — drive screw.
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- sharawadgi — a form of Chinese landscape architecture known for its irregular and asymmetrical plantings
- shawinigan — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- shield law — a law protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources of information.