10-letter words containing w, e, b, a
- 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
- 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.
- camberwell — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- craft brew — an all-malt or nearly all-malt specialty beer usually brewed in a small, regional brewery.
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- draw table — a table having one or more sliding leaves that may be drawn out as an extension.
- drawbridge — a bridge of which the whole or a section may be drawn up, let down, or drawn aside, to prevent access or to leave a passage open for boats, barges, etc.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- followable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jawbreaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- lawbreaker — a person who breaks or violates the law.
- lewis base — any substance capable of forming a covalent bond with an acid by transferring a pair of electrons to it.
- lower back — lumbar region
- marblewood — any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
- marrowbone — A bone containing edible marrow.
- new albany — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- new iberia — a city in S Louisiana.
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- newark bay — a bay in NE New Jersey. 6 miles (10 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.
- newby hall — a mansion near Ripon in Yorkshire: built in 1705 and altered (1770–76) by Robert Adam
- newsbreaks — Plural form of newsbreak.
- noblewoman — a woman of noble birth or rank.
- orb weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Argiopidae, characterized by loosely woven, spiraling webs that have support lines radiating outward from the center.
- oxbow lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- oxbow-lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
- pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- power base — a source of authority or influence, especially in politics, founded on support by an organized body of voters, ethnic minority, economic class, etc.: His election as governor gives him a power base for seeking the presidency.
- renewables — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- reviewable — Reviewable premiums or payments are not guaranteed and may be increased or decreased.
- rewardable — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
- rowanberry — a mountain ash tree
- rubber jaw — a condition in which the mandible becomes demineralized and excessively mobile in animals with advanced renal disease