10-letter words containing w, c, r
- key escrow — (security) A controversial arrangement where the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt messages which they suspect to be relevant to national security.
- knackwurst — a short, thick, highly seasoned sausage.
- knockwurst — knackwurst.
- 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
- law french — Anglo-French as used in legal proceedings and lawbooks in England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th century, some terms of which are still in use.
- lawn chair — a chair or chaise longue designed for use out of doors.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- lead screw — (on a lathe) a rotating horizontal screw for moving the tool carriage along the work at a constant rate.
- letchworth — a town in SE England, in N Hertfordshire: the first garden city in Great Britain (founded in 1903). Pop: 32 932 (2001)
- low church — pertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican Church that emphasizes evangelicalism and lays little stress on the sacraments, church rituals, and church authority.
- low-priced — selling at a low price; inexpensive; cheap.
- lower back — lumbar region
- lower case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- lower deck — the lowermost deck in a hull having two or three decks.
- lower-case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- lowercased — Printed or written in lowercase letters.
- lug wrench — a wrench for loosening or tightening lug nuts.
- macroworld — A world or reality on a larger scale, thus for example the social scale when discussing individual affairs, or the human scale when discussing particle physics.
- markiewicz — Constance, Countess, original name Constance Gore-Booth. 1868–1927, Irish nationalist, married to a Polish count. She fought in the Easter Rising (1916) and was sentenced to death but reprieved. The first woman elected to the British parliament (1918), she refused to take her seat
- microbrews — Plural form of microbrew.
- micropower — Of or pertaining to generating, storing or using extremely small amounts of power.
- microwatts — Plural form of microwatt.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- microworld — The world as it exists at a microscopic scale, subject to quantum effects etc. (from 20th c.).
- mocha ware — a pottery ware of the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, ornamented with colored glaze worked into branchlike patterns by drops of a diffusing agent applied while the glaze is still wet.
- mower deck — cutter deck.
- narrowback — a person of slight build who is unfit for hard labor.
- narrowcast — to aim a program or programming at a specific, limited audience or sales market.
- new france — the French colonies and possessions in North America up to 1763.
- new-collar — pertaining to or designating middle-class wage earners holding jobs in a service industry.
- newscaster — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- nonce word — a word coined and used only for a particular occasion. Compare neologism (def 1).
- nonce-word — a word coined and used only for a particular occasion. Compare neologism (def 1).
- oceanwards — Oceanward.
- overcrowds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcrowd.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- peckerwood — Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- pin wrench — a wrench having a pin for insertion into the heads of certain bolts to drive them. Compare spanner (def 2).
- power pack — a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.
- powerpc g3 — (processor) A processor chip from Apple Computer, Inc.. Described by Apple as "the third generation in the development of advanced processor technology" the first PowerPC G3 products were launched in 1997. It is specifically optimised for the Macintosh Operating System and uses backside cache to improve performance. The PowerPC G3 has been used by Apple in notebook, desktop and server products.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- quincewort — Squinancywort.
- racewalker — a person who participates in racewalking
- reichswehr — the 100,000-man army Germany was permitted to maintain under the Versailles Treaty after World War I: the limit was secretly exceeded.
- row vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written horizontally.