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10-letter words containing w, e, a

  • brown bear — a large ferocious brownish bear, Ursus arctos, inhabiting temperate forests of North America, Europe, and Asia
  • buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • by the way — You say by the way when you add something to what you are saying, especially something that you have just thought of.
  • 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
  • callowness — immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
  • 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.
  • campuswide — Throughout a campus.
  • candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
  • candlewood — the resinous wood of any of several trees, used for torches and candle substitutes
  • 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.
  • cashew nut — edible nut
  • casualwear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
  • cat's meow — Slang. someone or something wonderful or remarkable.
  • 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.
  • chainwheel — a toothed wheel that meshes with a roller chain to transmit motion
  • chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
  • chase away — If someone or something chases away worries, fears, or other bad feelings, they cause those feelings to change and become happier.
  • chase down — If you chase someone down, you run after them or follow them quickly and catch them.
  • china-ware — dishes, ornaments, etc., made of china.
  • chinawares — dishes, ornaments, etc., made of china.
  • chinwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag.
  • chwang-tse — Chuang-tzu (def 1).
  • clausewitz — Karl von (karl fɔn). 1780–1831, Prussian general, noted for his works on military strategy, esp Vom Kriege (1833)
  • clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
  • clean wool — wool that has been scoured to remove wax
  • 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.
  • club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
  • 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 sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
  • cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
  • commonweal — the good of the community
  • copperware — Articles made from copper.
  • cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
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