10-letter words containing w, a, l
- blaze away — to fire a gun rapidly a number of times
- blue wavey — See under wavey.
- blue whale — the largest mammal: a widely distributed bluish-grey whalebone whale, Sibbaldus (or Balaenoptera) musculus, closely related and similar to the rorquals: family Balaenopteridae
- blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
- bode's law — an empirical rule relating the distances of the planets from the sun, based on the numerical sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24,…. Adding 4 to each number and dividing by 10 gives the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1, 1.6, 2.8,…, which is a reasonable representation of distances in astronomical units for most planets if the minor planets are counted as a single entity at 2.8
- bohmerwald — German name of Bohemian Forest.
- borrowable — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- brailowsky — Alexander [al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr/ (Show IPA), 1896–1976, Russian pianist.
- brazilwood — a hard, reddish wood obtained from several tropical American trees (genera Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon) of the caesalpinia family: it yields a red or blue dye and is also used in making cabinets and violin bows
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- brick wall — a wall made out of brick
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
- callowness — immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
- camberwell — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.
- candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
- candlewood — the resinous wood of any of several trees, used for torches and candle substitutes
- carl lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
- casualwear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- cat's-claw — an acacia shrub (Acacia greggii) native to the Southwest and northern Mexico, having spikes of yellow flowers and thorns resembling claws
- caterwauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caterwaul.
- chainwheel — a toothed wheel that meshes with a roller chain to transmit motion
- chilliwack — city in S British Columbia, Canada: pop. 60,000
- chuckwalla — a lizard, Sauromalus obesus, that has an inflatable body and inhabits desert regions of the southwestern US: family Iguanidae (iguanas)
- clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
- clamp-down — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- clanswoman — a woman belonging to a clan
- clausewitz — Karl von (karl fɔn). 1780–1831, Prussian general, noted for his works on military strategy, esp Vom Kriege (1833)
- clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
- clean wool — wool that has been scoured to remove wax
- clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
- clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- click-wrap — a license agreement that appears as an icon during the setup of a software program or online service and must be clicked on to agree to its terms.
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- codswallop — If you describe something that someone has just said as codswallop, you mean that you think it is nonsense.
- cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
- cold-drawn — (of metal wire, bars, etc) having been drawn unheated through a die to reduce dimensions, toughen, and improve surface finish
- cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- colourwash — a coloured distemper
- colwyn bay — a town and resort in N Wales, in Conwy county borough. Pop: 30 269 (2001)