10-letter words containing w, a, i, c
- markiewicz — Constance, Countess, original name Constance Gore-Booth. 1868–1927, Irish nationalist, married to a Polish count. She fought in the Easter Rising (1916) and was sentenced to death but reprieved. The first woman elected to the British parliament (1918), she refused to take her seat
- microwatts — Plural form of microwatt.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- mosaic law — the ancient law of the Hebrews, ascribed to Moses.
- nowcasting — the preparation or production of nowcasts
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- 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.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- 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.
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
- screw nail — drive screw.
- showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- social war — Greek History. the war between Athens and its confederates, 357–355 b.c.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switchback — a highway, as in a mountainous area, having many hairpin curves.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- twice-laid — made from strands of used rope.
- twickenham — a former borough, now part of Richmond upon Thames, in SE England.
- twin-track — involving two simultaneous actions or processes
- w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
- wage claim — the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives
- wainscoted — Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
- waist pack — fanny pack.
- waistcloth — a loincloth.
- waistcoats — Plural form of waistcoat.
- wallachian — a former principality in SE Europe: united with Moldavia (Moldova) to form Romania in 1861. 29,569 sq. mi. (76,585 sq. km). Capital: Bucharest.
- war crimes — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- war office — the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
- warrandice — (legal) A form of warranty, in Scots law, in which a person conveying property was held liable for any outstanding claims on the property.
- watch fire — a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
- watch list — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
- watchnight — Alternative form of watch night.
- water rice — wild rice.
- water-inch — the quantity of water (approx. 500 cubic feet) discharged in 24 hours through a circular opening of one inch diameter leading from a reservoir in which the water is constantly only high enough to cover the orifice.
- water-sick — (of soil) unproductive due to excessive watering or salt residues from irrigation.
- wax insect — any of several scale insects that secrete a commercially valuable waxy substance, especially a Chinese scale insect, Ericerus pe-la.
- waxahachie — a city in NE central Texas.
- webcasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- weizsacker — Carl Friedrich von [kahrl free-drikh fuh n] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- wheelchair — a chair mounted on wheels for use by persons who cannot walk.
- whisky mac — a drink consisting of whisky and ginger wine