10-letter words containing t, w
- germantown — a NW section of Philadelphia, Pa.: American defeat by British 1777.
- ghost town — a town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine has been worked out.
- ghost word — a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint.
- ghost-weed — snow-on-the-mountain.
- ghostwrite — (intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
- glowsticks — Plural form of glowstick.
- go in with — share cost
- go to town — a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
- go towards — If an amount of money goes towards something, it is used to pay part of the cost of that thing.
- go without — be deprived of, not have
- go-between — a person who acts as an agent or intermediary between persons or groups; emissary.
- gray water — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
- graywether — sarsen.
- great wall — ancient wall in China
- great week — Holy Week.
- great worm — Internet Worm
- greatsword — Any generally straight bladed double edged sword large enough that it required the use of two hands to wield it effectively.
- grey water — household waste water that can be reused for some purposes without purification, e.g. bath water, which can be used to water plants
- grow apart — friends: become less intimate
- grow light — a fluorescent light bulb designed to emit light of a wavelength conducive to plant growth.
- grunt work — work that is repetitious, often physically exhausting, and boring.
- guess what — used to announce news
- hagerstown — a city in NW Maryland.
- half twist — Diving. a dive made by a half rotation of the body on its long axis. Compare full twist.
- half-white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- harmsworth — Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe, 1865–1922, English journalist, publisher, and politician.
- hate-watch — to watch (a TV show, movie, video, actor, etc.) that one professes to dislike, often with the intention to mock or criticize.
- hateworthy — Worthy of being hated, detestable, despicable.
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- healthwise — With regard to health.
- heartworms — Plural form of heartworm.
- heath wren — either of two ground-nesting warblers of southern Australia, Hylacola pyrrhopygia or H. cauta, noted for their song and their powers of mimicry
- hedgewitch — A modern witch who focuses on herbalism and shamanic experience.
- herskowitz — Melville (Jean) 1895–1963, American anthropologist.
- high water — water at its greatest elevation, as in a river.
- hit wicket — an instance of a batsman breaking the wicket with the bat or a part of the body while playing a stroke and so being out
- hitherward — hither.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- hollow out — make hollow, scoop out
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- hot switch — a rapid transfer from one point of origin to another during a broadcast.
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- hotel work — any of various jobs required in a hotel, such as receptionists, waiters, etc
- how's that — If you say 'How's that?' to someone, you are asking whether something is acceptable or satisfactory.
- huntiegowk — a fool's errand or a person sent on an April fool's errand