10-letter words containing w, a, r, d
- farewelled — Simple past tense and past participle of farewell.
- fine-drawn — drawn out to extreme fineness or thinness.
- firewalled — Simple past tense and past participle of firewall.
- firewarden — a person having authority in the prevention or extinguishing of fires, as in towns or camps.
- floodwater — the water that overflows as the result of a flood.
- flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- forewarned — to warn in advance.
- forward of — If one thing is forward of another, especially on a ship or aircraft, the first thing is in front of the second thing or further ahead.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
- go towards — If an amount of money goes towards something, it is used to pay part of the cost of that thing.
- go-forward — forward momentum, esp of a sports team during a match
- goa powder — a brownish-yellow, odorless, crystalline powder obtained from the wood or the trunk of the Brazilian tree Andira araroba, used as a source of chrysarobin.
- goldwasser — a liqueur flavored with spices, figs, lemons, and herbs, and having minute flakes of gold leaf in suspension.
- greasewood — a shrub, Sarcobatus vermiculatus, of the amaranth family, growing in alkaline regions of the western U.S., containing a small amount of oil.
- greatsword — Any generally straight bladed double edged sword large enough that it required the use of two hands to wield it effectively.
- greensward — green, grassy turf.
- ground war — the part of a political campaign that is conducted door-to-door by party workers in individual constituencies
- groundward — Towards the ground.
- hand mower — a lawn mower that is pushed by hand (distinguished from power mower).
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- handbarrow — a frame with handles at each end by which it is carried.
- handwarmer — a small, flat, usually pocket-size device containing material, as chemicals, hot liquids, or a battery-operated heating element, for warming the hands.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- hard water — water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty.
- hard wheat — a wheat, as durum wheat, characterized by flinty, dark-colored kernels that yield a flour used in making bread, macaroni, etc.
- hard-wired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardwarily — /hard-weir'*-lee/ In a way pertaining to hardware. "The system is hardwarily unreliable." The adjective "hardwary" is *not* traditionally used, though it has recently been reported from the U.K. See softwarily.
- hardwiring — a fixed connection between electrical and electronic components and devices by means of wires (as distinguished from a wireless connection).
- headwaiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- heavenward — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- hitherward — hither.
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- inwardness — the state of being inward or internal: the inwardness of the body's organs.
- iron-jawed — having a jaw of or like iron: an iron-jawed press; an iron-jawed fighter.
- janus word — a word that has opposite or nearly opposite meanings, as cleave, meaning ‘to adhere closely’ and ‘to part or split’.
- ladieswear — clothes designed for women
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landowners — Plural form of landowner.
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- lead screw — (on a lathe) a rotating horizontal screw for moving the tool carriage along the work at a constant rate.
- leeuwarden — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
- leftwardly — leftwards
- low-loader — a road or rail vehicle for heavy loads with a low platform for ease of access