10-letter words containing w, a, n
- newsagency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- newsagents — Plural form of newsagent.
- newsbreaks — Plural form of newsbreak.
- newscaster — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
- newsmakers — Plural form of newsmaker.
- newspapers — Plural form of newspaper.
- newsreader — a person who presents the news on a radio or television news broadcast; newscaster.
- newsstands — Plural form of newsstand.
- night-hawk — any of several longwinged, American goatsuckers of the genus Chordeiles, related to the whippoorwill, especially C. minor, having variegated black, white, and buff plumage.
- nighthawks — Plural form of nighthawk.
- no waiting — used on road signs to mean vehicles are not allowed to park, even for short periods of time
- noblewoman — a woman of noble birth or rank.
- nonallowed — Not allowed.
- 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.
- not a whit — You say not a whit or not one whit to emphasize that something is not the case at all.
- nowcasting — the preparation or production of nowcasts
- nutrasweet — a brand of artificial sweetener
- oceanwards — Oceanward.
- on the way — en route
- 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.
- pantywaist — Informal. a weak, effeminate man; sissy.
- 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
- patent law — the law relating to patents
- pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- 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.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- pit sawing — a method of sawing logs or timbers, as into boards, in which the piece to be cut is laid horizontally across a pit and cut by a saw operated vertically by two people, one above and one in the pit below the piece.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- plain-wrap — packaged in a plain wrapper, especially one displaying no brand name; no-frills: the growing popularity of plain-wrap products.
- planer saw — a hollow-ground circular saw for ripping and cutting across grain, having raker teeth for clearing away the chips cut by the cutting teeth.
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
- 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
- prewarning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- preweaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- prizewoman — a female prize winner
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- queensware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
- rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- railwayman — male railway worker