10-letter words containing w, a, d, e
- drinkwater — John, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- 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.
- dwarf male — a male animal that is much smaller, and often internally simpler, than its female counterpart. Dwarf males are commonly carried by the female, as in species of angler fish
- early wood — springwood.
- earthwards — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- edward iii — 1312–77, king of England 1327–77 (son of Edward II).
- edward vii — (Albert Edward"the Peacemaker") 1841–1910, king of Great Britain and Ireland 1901–10 (son of Queen Victoria).
- enwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of enwreathe.
- eye shadow — make-up for the eyelids
- false dawn — zodiacal light occurring before sunrise.
- farewelled — Simple past tense and past participle of farewell.
- fat-witted — stupid; dull-witted.
- fine-drawn — drawn out to extreme fineness or thinness.
- firewalled — Simple past tense and past participle of firewall.
- firewarden — a person having authority in the prevention or extinguishing of fires, as in towns or camps.
- floodwater — the water that overflows as the result of a flood.
- flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- forewarned — to warn in advance.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- galaxywide — Throughout a galaxy.
- goa powder — a brownish-yellow, odorless, crystalline powder obtained from the wood or the trunk of the Brazilian tree Andira araroba, used as a source of chrysarobin.
- goldwasser — a liqueur flavored with spices, figs, lemons, and herbs, and having minute flakes of gold leaf in suspension.
- greasewood — a shrub, Sarcobatus vermiculatus, of the amaranth family, growing in alkaline regions of the western U.S., containing a small amount of oil.
- greatsword — Any generally straight bladed double edged sword large enough that it required the use of two hands to wield it effectively.
- greensward — green, grassy turf.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- hand mower — a lawn mower that is pushed by hand (distinguished from power mower).
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand towel — small towel for drying the hands
- hand-woven — woven by hand rather than by machine
- handwarmer — a small, flat, usually pocket-size device containing material, as chemicals, hot liquids, or a battery-operated heating element, for warming the hands.
- handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- 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.
- hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- head wound — a wound to the head
- heads down — [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
- 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.
- heave down — to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- hitherward — hither.