10-letter words containing w, 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.
- mosaic law — the ancient law of the Hebrews, ascribed to Moses.
- 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 canaan — a town in SW Connecticut.
- new candle — candela
- new castle — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- new comedy — Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.
- new france — the French colonies and possessions in North America up to 1763.
- new mexico — a state in the SW United States. 121,666 sq. mi. (315,115 sq. km). Capital: Santa Fe. Abbreviation: NM (for use with zip code), N. Mex., N.M.
- new quebec — a region of E Canada, formerly the Ungava district of Northwest Territories (1895–1912), extending from the line of the Eastmain and Hamilton Rivers north between Hudson Bay and Labrador; absorbed by Quebec in 1912; contains extensive iron deposits. Area: about 777 000 sq km (300 000 sq miles)
- new-collar — pertaining to or designating middle-class wage earners holding jobs in a service industry.
- newsagency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- 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).
- nowcasting — the preparation or production of nowcasts
- oceanwards — Oceanward.
- overcrowds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcrowd.
- paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- 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.
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- pin wrench — a wrench having a pin for insertion into the heads of certain bolts to drive them. Compare spanner (def 2).
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- 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.
- public law — Also called public act, public statute. a law or statute of a general character that applies to the people of a whole state or nation.
- punch bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punch-bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- 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.
- sacred cow — an individual, organization, institution, etc., considered to be exempt from criticism or questioning.
- sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- saw doctor — a sawmill specialist who sharpens and services saw blades
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scapa flow — an area of water off the N coast of Scotland, in the Orkney Islands: British naval base; German warships scuttled 1919.
- scapewheel — escape wheel.
- scare away — frighten off sb, sth
- scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
- schoolward — towards or in the direction of school