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10-letter words containing s, w, i, e

  • lineswoman — a female official, as in tennis, soccer, ice hockey, and football, who assists the referee.
  • lineswomen — Plural form of lineswoman.
  • liverworts — Plural form of liverwort.
  • liverwurst — a sausage made with a large percentage of liver, especially one made with pork liver and pork meat.
  • microbrews — Plural form of microbrew.
  • microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
  • midwestern — Also, Midwestern. Middle Western.
  • 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.
  • mirrorwise — having the left and right sides reversed
  • mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
  • miswandred — having strayed or become lost or gone off course
  • miswritten — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
  • miterworts — Plural form of miterwort.
  • news media — media1 (def 2).
  • newswriter — A journalist who writes the scripts for a newsreader.
  • no worries — it is not a problem
  • non-jewish — not practising Judaism
  • nonswimmer — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
  • outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
  • overwisely — in a pretentiously wise manner
  • 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.
  • parcelwise — bit by bit
  • penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
  • 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.
  • ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
  • point-wise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
  • 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
  • press view — a showing of a film exclusively for the benefit of the press, before it goes on general release
  • profitwise — from the point of view of profit
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • reichswehr — the 100,000-man army Germany was permitted to maintain under the Versailles Treaty after World War I: the limit was secretly exceeded.
  • rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
  • 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
  • schweitzerAlbert, 1875–1965, Alsatian writer, missionary, doctor, and musician in Africa: Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
  • schwittersKurt [koo rt] /kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1948, German artist.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • screw pine — any tropical Asian tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots, and bearing an edible fruit.
  • screwiness — the state or quality of being screwy
  • scrollwise — like a scroll, in a way similar to a scroll
  • semiweekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
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