10-letter words containing u, a, w
- law courts — a body which adjudicates legal disputes and attempts to administer justice in accordance with the law
- lawfulness — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- leeuwarden — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
- loungewear — articles of clothing suitable for wear during leisure time, especially in the home.
- low fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- low sunday — the first Sunday after Easter.
- lukewarmly — In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without extremeness.
- lukewarmth — lukewarmness
- lunchwagon — a small bus, truck, or other vehicle outfitted for selling or for serving light meals and snacks to the public.
- lusterware — ceramic ware covered with a luster.
- lustreware — Alternative spelling of lusterware.
- mallowpuff — a white marshmallow on a biscuit base and covered with chocolate
- malus' law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- meadow rue — any of several plants belonging to the genus Thalictrum, of the buttercup family, having leaves resembling those of rue, especially T. dioicum, of North America.
- mediumwave — Of radio waves, having a wavelength of approximately 100 to 1000 meters.
- moudiewart — a mole
- new guinea — a large island N of Australia, politically divided into the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya (West Irian) and the independent country of Papua New Guinea. About 316,000 sq. mi. (818,000 sq. km).
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- news value — newsworthiness; value in terms of its interest to consumers of published or broadcast news
- nutrasweet — a brand of artificial sweetener
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- pequot war — a war in 1637 between Connecticut colonists, aided by British soldiers and friendly Indian tribes, and the Pequot Indians under their chief, Sassacus, that resulted in the defeat and dispersion of the Pequot tribe.
- pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
- possum haw — a shrub, Ilex decidua, of the southeastern U.S., having leaves that are hairy on the upper surface and glossy, red fruit.
- public law — Also called public act, public statute. a law or statute of a general character that applies to the people of a whole state or nation.
- pump-water — water that has been sourced from under soil level by means of a pump
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- quartersaw — to saw (lumber) from quarter sections of logs so that the annual rings in any board form at least a 45° angle with the faces of the board.
- queensware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- rubber jaw — a condition in which the mandible becomes demineralized and excessively mobile in animals with advanced renal disease
- rubberwear — clothing made of rubber
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- sea walnut — a comb jelly, as of the genus Mnemiopsis, shaped like a walnut.
- snow gauge — an instrument for measuring the depth of snow.
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- southwards — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- square-law — of or relating to an electronic circuit or device that produces an output voltage proportional to the square of its input voltage over the range of input voltages for which it is designed to function: square-law detector.
- squarewise — in a square position or shape
- squauwmish — Squamish.
- squawk box — the speaker of a public-address system or an intercom system; loudspeaker.
- stab wound — knife injury
- stuntwoman — A stuntwoman is a woman whose job is to do dangerous things, either for publicity, or in a movie instead of an actor so that the actor does not risk being injured.
- sugar bowl — a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
- sunset law — a statute that includes provision for automatic termination of a government program, agency, etc., at the end of a specified time period unless it is reauthorized by the legislature.
- superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.