10-letter words containing w, a, d
- 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.
- fan window — a window having a fanlike form with radiating sash bars, used especially as a fanlight.
- 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.
- flood wall — Civil Engineering. a wall built along a shore or bank to prevent floods by giving a raised, uniform freeboard and by allowing unimpeded flow to water in a channel.
- floodwalls — Plural form of floodwall.
- 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.
- forward of — If one thing is forward of another, especially on a ship or aircraft, the first thing is in front of the second thing or further ahead.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
- galaxywide — Throughout a galaxy.
- go down as — If you say that an event or action will go down as a particular thing, you mean that it will be regarded, remembered, or recorded as that thing.
- go towards — If an amount of money goes towards something, it is used to pay part of the cost of that thing.
- go-forward — forward momentum, esp of a sports team during a match
- 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.
- ground war — the part of a political campaign that is conducted door-to-door by party workers in individual constituencies
- groundward — Towards the ground.
- 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
- handbarrow — a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
- hands down — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-down — easy: a hands-down victory.
- handwarmer — a small, flat, usually pocket-size device containing material, as chemicals, hot liquids, or a battery-operated heating element, for warming the hands.
- handywoman — Female equivalent of handyman.
- 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.
- hardwarily — /hard-weir'*-lee/ In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective "hardwary" is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
- hardwiring — a fixed connection between electrical and electronic components and devices by means of wires (as distinguished from a wireless connection).
- head wound — a wound to the head