10-letter words containing w, a, l, c
- slow march — a march in slow time
- slow match — a slow-burning match or fuse, often consisting of a rope or cord soaked in a solution of saltpeter.
- social war — Greek History. the war between Athens and its confederates, 357–355 b.c.
- space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
- swarm cell — the amebalike germinated spore cell of myxomycetes.
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- towel rack — a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels or washcloths are hung.
- twice-laid — made from strands of used rope.
- unchewable — not able to be chewed; tough
- unwatchful — not watchful or not alert to danger; inattentive
- 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
- wage scale — a schedule of wages paid workers performing related tasks in an industry or shop.
- waistcloth — a loincloth.
- walk socks — men's knee-length stockings
- 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.
- wallcharts — Plural form of wallchart.
- war clouds — sign of trouble ahead
- washcloths — Plural form of washcloth.
- watch list — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
- watchfully — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- watcom sql — (database, product) A family of databases from Watcom International, based on scalable technology and a SQL database engine. Version 4.0 adds stored procedures and triggers. It is designed for environments ranging from large departmental networks with a diverse range of PC client systems, to peer-to-peer workgroups, to stand-alone PCs. It is available in stand-alone versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2 and MS DOS; and multi-user network server versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, NetWare NLM and MS DOS.
- water-cool — to cool by means of water, especially by water circulating in pipes or a water jacket, as an engine or machine gun.
- watercolor — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- watercycle — any of various small watercraft that are moved by working pedals or treadles
- webcrawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- well acted — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- well-acted — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- wenceslaus — 1361–1419, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1378–1400; as Wenceslaus IV, king of Bohemia 1378–1419.
- werejackal — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a jackal.
- whale calf — the young of a whale
- whalebacks — Plural form of whaleback.
- wheel arch — The wheel arch is the semicircular part positioned above the wheel of a vehicle.
- wheel back — a chair back having the form of a circle or oval with spindles or bars meeting at the center.
- wheelchair — a chair mounted on wheels for use by persons who cannot walk.
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- wholescale — Wholesale (extensive).
- wild calla — water arum.
- wild track — a soundtrack recorded other than with a synchronized picture, usually carrying sound effects, random dialogue, etc
- wildcarded — (computing) Replaced or supplemented with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
- wildcatted — Simple past tense and past participle of wildcat.
- wildcatter — an oil prospector.
- willywacks — willowwacks.
- wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- witch ball — a decorated blown glass ball.
- woollyback — a person who lives in a region near, but not in, Liverpool
- word class — a group of words all of which are members of the same form class or part of speech.
- workaholic — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- worldscale — the standard scale of freight rates for oil tankers