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10-letter words containing w, e, a, r

  • bowerwoman — a chamber-woman
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • bowser bag — doggy bag.
  • brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
  • brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
  • brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
  • break away — If you break away from someone who is trying to hold you or catch you, you free yourself and run away.
  • break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
  • break wind — to emit wind from the anus
  • break with — to end a relationship or association with (someone or an organization or social group)
  • breakwater — A breakwater is a wooden or stone wall that extends from the shore into the sea and is built in order to protect a harbour or beach from the force of the waves.
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
  • brewmaster — a person who is in charge of brewing beer in a brewery
  • bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
  • bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
  • browbeaten — intimidated
  • browbeater — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown bear — a large ferocious brownish bear, Ursus arctos, inhabiting temperate forests of North America, Europe, and Asia
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • cabin crew — The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
  • cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
  • camberwell — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.
  • cameo ware — jasper ware with applied decoration of classical motifs, resembling a cameo
  • camerawork — The camerawork in a film is the way it has been filmed, especially if the style is interesting or unusual in some way.
  • cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
  • cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
  • cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
  • car-worker — a person who works in the car industry
  • carl lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
  • carpetweed — an annual weed, Mollugo verticillata, native to North America, which produces small white flowers
  • cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
  • caseworker — A caseworker is someone who does casework.
  • cashdrawer — a drawer, as in a cash register, that has separate compartments for coins and bills of different denominations.
  • casualwear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
  • catchwater — a drain or ditch which catches water
  • caterwauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caterwaul.
  • catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
  • censorware — (computing) Software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet or block Internet access or restrict the running of applications or computer usage. Content filtering software, or a component in an operating system or console used to disable reception of media on the basis of content believed to be objectionable.
  • chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
  • china-ware — dishes, ornaments, etc., made of china.
  • chinawares — dishes, ornaments, etc., made of china.
  • clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
  • clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
  • clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
  • clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
  • codewalker — (programming, tool)   A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
  • cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
  • copperware — Articles made from copper.
  • cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
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