10-letter words containing w, a, t, l
- 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.
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- jack towel — a long towel with the ends sewed together, for hanging on a roller.
- lake worth — a city in SE Florida.
- landwaiter — a British customs officer who enforces import-export regulations, collects import duties, etc.
- last straw — the last of a succession of irritations, incidents, remarks, etc., that leads to a loss of patience, a disaster, etc.: He has been late before, but this is the last straw.
- law centre — an office, usually staffed by professional volunteers, at which free legal advice and information are provided to the general public
- law courts — a body which adjudicates legal disputes and attempts to administer justice in accordance with the law
- lawn party — garden party.
- lawrentian — of, relating to, or characteristic of D. H. Lawrence, his works, or his ideas.
- lead white — a poisonous pigment used in painting, consisting of white lead and characterized chiefly by a fugitive white color, covering power, and tough, flexible film-forming properties.
- left arrow — (character) The graphic which the 1963 version of ASCII had in place of the underscore character, ASCII 95.
- leftwardly — leftwards
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- light wave — the movement of light conceptualized as a wave, defined by such properties as reflection, refraction, and dispersion
- lightwaves — Plural form of lightwave.
- like water — lavishly; freely
- lollywater — a sweet soft drink, especially one brightly colored.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- lukewarmth — lukewarmness
- lusterware — ceramic ware covered with a luster.
- lustreware — Alternative spelling of lusterware.
- metal wood — a structural material consisting of a sheet of metal glued between two veneers or of a veneer glued between two sheets of metal.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- milliwatts — Plural form of milliwatt.
- navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
- new castle — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- party wall — a wall used, or usable, as a part of contiguous structures.
- patent law — the law relating to patents
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- powerplant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
- salt water — water containing a large amount of salt.
- schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- sea walnut — a comb jelly, as of the genus Mnemiopsis, shaped like a walnut.
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
- slow match — a slow-burning match or fuse, often consisting of a rope or cord soaked in a solution of saltpeter.
- small town — Small town is used when referring to small places, usually in the United States, where people are friendly, honest, and polite, or to the people there. Small town is also sometimes used to suggest that someone has old-fashioned ideas.
- small-town — of, relating to, or characteristic of a town or village: a typical, small-town general store.
- smart well — A smart well is a well which has equipment that can be controlled either automatically or by an operator at a remote location.
- smart wool — a textile produced by blending wool with a conductive fibre, which can be heated by means of a small battery
- snow plant — a leafless, parasitic plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, of the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada in California, having a stout spike of bright red flowers, a thickly scaled stem, and a corallike mass of roots.
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.