10-letter words containing t, w
- delta wing — a triangular sweptback aircraft wing
- dewatering — the act of removing water
- dexterwise — on or to the right hand side (of a heraldic shield)
- dim-witted — a stupid or slow-thinking person.
- dip switch — computing: on-off switch
- dirty word — a vulgar or taboo word; obscenity.
- dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- disentwine — (transitive) To free from being entwined or twisted; untwine.
- 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.
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- 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.
- downstairs — down the stairs.
- 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.
- downthrows — Plural form of downthrow.
- downtowner — Someone from downtown.
- downtrends — Plural form of downtrend.
- downturned — Turned downwards.
- draw table — a table having one or more sliding leaves that may be drawn out as an extension.
- draw-sheet — a sheet that can be easily removed from underneath a patient in a bed
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
- drawstring — a string or cord that tightens or closes an opening, as of a bag, clothing, or the like, when one or both ends are pulled.
- drinkwater — John, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dust whirl — dust devil.
- dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- dvd writer — A DVD writer is the same as a DVD burner.
- dwarf star — any of the ordinary main sequence stars, as those of spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
- dwell time — the amount of time a customer spends waiting in a queue
- earth wave — any elastic wave traveling through the material of the earth, as a wave caused by an earthquake.
- earth wire — a wire connecting an appliance to earth
- earthwards — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- earthwoman — a female inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthwomen — Plural form of earthwoman.
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.