10-letter words containing t, w, e, r
- sweet fern — a North American shrub, Comptonia (or Myrica) asplenifolia, having scented fernlike leaves and heads of brownish flowers: family Myricaceae
- sweet roll — a roll made of sweet dough, often containing spices, raisins, nuts, candied fruit, etc., and sometimes iced on top.
- sweetbread — Also called stomach sweetbread. the pancreas of an animal, especially a calf or a lamb, used for food.
- sweetbrier — a rose, Rosa eglanteria, of Europe and central Asia, having a tall stem, stout, hooked prickles often mixed with bristles, and single, pink flowers.
- sweetheart — either of a pair of lovers in relation to the other.
- sweetwater — a city in NW Texas.
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swinnerton — Frank (Arthur) 1884–1982, English novelist and critic.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- swiveltree — swingletree.
- sword belt — a military belt from which a sword may be hung.
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- televiewer — a person who watches television
- teleworker — person who works from home
- telewriter — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting by converting the manually controlled movements of a pen into signals that, after transmission, control the movements of a similar pen
- tepe gawra — an archaeological site in N Iraq, near Mosul: excavations have revealed that numerous settlements have occupied this site since c5000 b.c.
- tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
- the bowery — a street in New York City noted for its cheap hotels and bars, frequented by vagrants and drunks
- the wirral — a peninsula in NW England between the estuaries of the Rivers Mersey and Dee
- the wrekin — an isolated hill in the English Midlands in Telford and Wrekin unitary authority, Shropshire. Height: 400 m (1335 ft)
- threadworm — any of various nematode worms, especially a pinworm.
- throw open — to open completely and suddenly
- throw over — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- tidewaiter — a customs officer who checks goods upon a vessel's landing, to secure the payment of duties.
- timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
- tom sawyer — (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)a novel (1876) by Mark Twain.
- top drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- top-drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- towel rack — a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels or washcloths are hung.
- towel rail — a rail or frame in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- towel ring — a circular hoop in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- tower bolt — barrel bolt.
- tower-mill — a windmill of which only the cap rotates to face the sails into the wind.
- town clerk — a town official who keeps records and issues licenses.
- town crier — (formerly) a person employed by a town to make public announcements or proclamations, usually by shouting in the streets.
- trade down — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade show — show (def 22).
- trade wind — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
- trawlerman — a person working on a fishing trawler at sea
- tree shrew — any of several insectivorous, arboreal mammals of the family Tupaiidae, of southern Asia and adjacent islands, resembling a squirrel and having a long snout.
- trowbridge — a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Wiltshire: woollen manufacturing. Pop: 34 401 (2001)
- tupperware — Tupperware is a range of plastic containers with tight-fitting lids that are used for storing food.
- tweedsmuir — Baron, Buchan, John.
- tweetheart — a sweetheart on the Twitter website
- twice over — two times
- twice-born — Hinduism. of or relating to members of the Indian castes of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaisyas, who undergo a spiritual rebirth and initiation in adolescence.