10-letter words containing w, e, d
- bowed down — weighed down; troubled
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
- 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 down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- break wind — to emit wind from the anus
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- bridlewise — (of a horse) obedient to the pressure of the reins on the neck rather than to the bit
- brown deer — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
- bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
- butterweed — a North American herbaceous plant, Senecio glabellus, with yellow flowers
- cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
- 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
- carpetweed — an annual weed, Mollugo verticillata, native to North America, which produces small white flowers
- cashdrawer — a drawer, as in a cash register, that has separate compartments for coins and bills of different denominations.
- chase down — If you chase someone down, you run after them or follow them quickly and catch them.
- cheesewood — the tough yellowish wood of Australian trees of the genus Pittosporum: family Pittosporaceae
- child wife — a very young wife.
- chinwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag.
- choke down — to swallow with difficulty
- close down — to cease or cause to cease operations
- closedowns — Plural form of closedown.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- 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
- cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
- cottonweed — a downy perennial plant, Otanthus maritimus, of European coastal regions, having small yellow flowers surrounded by large hairy bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- curse word — a profane or obscene word, especially as used in anger or for emphasis.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- daisywheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- de la warr — Baron, title of Thomas West, known as Lord Delaware. 1577–1618, English administrator in America; first governor of Virginia (1610)
- dead water — water eddying beside a moving hull, especially directly astern.
- deadweight — (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
- 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.