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10-letter words containing t, o, w

  • buttonwood — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
  • cat's meow — Slang. someone or something wonderful or remarkable.
  • catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
  • chief town — a town or city that is the administrative centre of a region
  • close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
  • coastwards — in the direction of the coast
  • coatsworthElizabeth, 1893–1986, U.S. writer, especially of children's books.
  • cobwebsite — (jargon, web)   A website that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead web page.
  • codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
  • cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
  • cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
  • contraflow — A contraflow is a situation in which vehicles travelling on a main road in one direction have to use lanes that are normally used by traffic travelling in the opposite direction, because the road is being repaired.
  • copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
  • cottonweed — a downy perennial plant, Otanthus maritimus, of European coastal regions, having small yellow flowers surrounded by large hairy bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • cottonwick — a grunt, Haemulon melanurum, of warm Atlantic seas.
  • cottonwood — A cottonwood or a cottonwood tree is a kind of tree that grows in North America and has seeds that are covered with hairs that look like cotton.
  • cottonwool — Alternative form of cotton wool.
  • count down — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
  • countdowns — Plural form of countdown.
  • counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
  • countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
  • cowboy hat — a wide-brimmed hat as worn by cowboys
  • cowcatcher — a metal frame on the front of a locomotive to clear the track of animals or other obstructions
  • cowfeteria — a calf feeder with multiple teats
  • cross-town — going across or following a route across a town
  • crotchwood — wood from a tree crotch, characterized by a swirling, irregular figure and used for furniture and veneers.
  • crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
  • crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
  • crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
  • crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
  • cut flower — any pretty flower cut for a floral arrangement.
  • czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
  • death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
  • deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
  • dirty word — a vulgar or taboo word; obscenity.
  • dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
  • dish towel — cloth: for drying dishes
  • dishtowels — Plural form of dishtowel.
  • 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 without — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
  • dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
  • don't know — a person who has no opinion or is undecided, as in answering an item on a public-opinion poll.
  • don't-know — a person who has no opinion or is undecided, as in answering an item on a public-opinion poll.
  • downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
  • downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
  • downdrafts — Plural form of downdraft.
  • downgrowth — something that grows or has grown in a downward direction: The posterior pituitary is a downgrowth of the brain.
  • downlights — Plural form of downlight.
  • downmarket — Toward or relating to the cheaper or less prestigious sector of the market.
  • downspouts — Plural form of downspout.
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