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10-letter words containing w, a, n, o, r

  • narrowhead — Applied to various kinds of animals with a narrow head.
  • narrowness — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
  • navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
  • new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
  • new-collar — pertaining to or designating middle-class wage earners holding jobs in a service industry.
  • nonrenewal — the fact or act of not renewing
  • norsewoman — a female member of the peoples of ancient Norway or Scandinavia
  • northwards — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
  • norway rat — an Old World rat, Rattus norvegicus, having a grayish-brown body with whitish underparts and a long, scaly tail, now common in the U.S. in or near homes, barns, wharves, etc.
  • oceanwards — Oceanward.
  • on welfare — the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
  • orangewood — the hard, fine-grained, yellowish wood of the orange tree, used in inlaid work and fine turnery.
  • pared-down — If you describe something as pared-down, you mean that it has no unnecessary features, and has been reduced to a very simple form.
  • part owner — a person who shares in the ownership of something
  • pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
  • phoney war — A phoney war is when two opposing groups are openly hostile towards each other, as if they were at war, but there is no real fighting.
  • piano wire — a very thin steel wire of high tensile strength.
  • powerplant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • powertrain — (in a motorized vehicle) the whole mechanism by which power is generated and transmitted to the road, surrounding air, water, etc
  • presswoman — a female reporter
  • prizewoman — a female prize winner
  • rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
  • randomwise — in a random manner
  • range wool — the wool of sheep raised west of the Mississippi River, especially in Washington and the Rocky Mountain States.
  • ransomware — malware planted illegally in a computer or mobile device that disables its operation or access to its data until the owner or operator pays to regain control or access.
  • rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
  • rawsthorne — Alan. 1905–71, English composer, whose works include three symphonies, several concertos, and a set of Symphonic Studies (1939)
  • rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
  • rowanberry — a mountain ash tree
  • rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
  • scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
  • seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
  • snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
  • snow grass — any of various grey-green grasses of the genus Poa, of SE Australian mountain regions
  • snow train — a train that takes passengers to and from a winter resort area.
  • solar wind — an emanation from the sun's corona consisting of a flow of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, that interacts with the magnetic field of the earth and other planetary bodies.
  • spongeware — earthenware decorated with color applied with a sponge.
  • stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
  • strandwolf — brown hyena.
  • superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
  • sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
  • sword cane — a cane or walking stick having a hollow shaft that serves as a sheath for a sword or dagger.
  • tawny port — a type of port that is aged in wood for at least 7 years, giving it a 'nutty' flavour; its colour is tawny, as opposed to the red of a ruby port
  • track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • trade down — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
  • trojan war — a ten-year war waged by the confederated Greeks under Agamemnon against the Trojans to avenge the abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, by Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam, and ending in the plundering and burning of Troy.
  • two-hander — a play for two actors
  • untowardly — in an untoward manner
  • unworkable — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  • wagon roof — barrel vault.
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