10-letter words containing w, d, a
- tidewaiter — a customs officer who checks goods upon a vessel's landing, to secure the payment of duties.
- top drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- top-drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trade down — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade show — show (def 22).
- trade wind — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
- twice-laid — made from strands of used rope.
- two-handed — having two hands.
- two-hander — a play for two actors
- two-tailed — (of a significance test) concerned with the hypothesis that an observed value of a sampling statistic differs significantly from a given value, where an error in either direction is relevant: for instance, in testing the fairness of scales, an inspector will seek to exclude both overweight and underweight goods
- un-awarded — to give as due or merited; assign or bestow: to award prizes.
- un-awkward — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
- unanswered — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
- unavowedly — in an unavowed or concealed manner
- unawakened — (esp of the emotions or passions) not awakened or aroused
- unbewailed — not bewailed or grieved for; unlamented
- underdrawn — to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.
- underjawed — with a heavy or underhung lower jaw
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- underwater — existing or occurring under water.
- unhallowed — not hallowed or consecrated; not regarded as holy or sacred: unhallowed ground.
- united way — a nationwide civic organization (United Way of America) or any of its affiliated local groups that raise funds through individual contributions and allocate them to benefit civic and charitable programs and organizations, as the YMCA and Red Cross. Formerly Community Chests and Councils of America, United Community Funds and Councils of America.
- unrewarded — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- unshadowed — not shadowed; not darkened or obscured by shadow; free from gloom.
- untowardly — in an untoward manner
- unweakened — not weakened; remaining at full strength
- uphillward — in an uphill direction
- upwards of — toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.
- urban wind — a turbulent wind at street level around tall structures in a city, characterized by a warming of the air by the heat output from these structures.
- video wall — A video wall is a set of video screens that are connected together, so that each screen shows a part of the whole picture or so that the same picture is repeated on each screen.
- vijayawada — a city in E Andhra Pradesh, in SE India, on the delta of the Krishna River.
- wacked-out — whacked-out.
- wad medani — a city in E central Sudan, on the Blue Nile.
- waddington — Mount, a mountain in SW British Columbia, Canada: highest peak of the Coast Mountains. 13,104 feet (3994 meters).
- wadi halfa — a former town in the N Sudan, on the Nile: now under the waters of Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam in S Egypt.
- waferboard — a structural material made from wood wafers of controlled thickness and length bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure.
- wage drift — the change in the amount by which actual earnings exceed negotiated earnings
- wagonloads — Plural form of wagonload.
- wainscoted — Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
- waist-deep — being at or rising to the level of the waist.
- waistbands — Plural form of waistband.
- waiterhood — the state of being a waiter
- waldemar i — ("the Great") 1131–82, king of Denmark 1157–82.
- waldenburg — German name of Wałbrzych.
- waldensian — a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.
- waldgraves — Plural form of waldgrave.
- walkaround — A competitive dance in blackface minstrel shows of the 19th century.
- wallboards — Plural form of wallboard.