10-letter words containing w, e, i, l
- powderlike — resembling powder (usually in consistency or texture); powdery
- power line — a line for conducting electric power.
- power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
- printwheel — daisy wheel.
- pull wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- reviewable — Reviewable premiums or payments are not guaranteed and may be increased or decreased.
- rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
- rottweiler — one of a German breed of large, powerful dogs having a short, coarse, black coat with tan to brown markings.
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- screw nail — drive screw.
- screw pile — a pile that is used for the foundations of bridges, lighthouses, etc., and has a screwlike lower end for drilling through and taking firm hold in compacted material.
- scrollwise — like a scroll, in a way similar to a scroll
- semiweekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
- semmelweis — Ignaz Philipp [ig-nahts fee-lip] /ˈɪg nɑts ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1818–65, Hungarian obstetrician.
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shield law — a law protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources of information.
- shieldwall — a protective wall formed by interlocking the shields of foot soldiers
- side-wheel — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- silverware — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
- silverweed — a plant, Potentilla anserina, of the rose family, the leaves of which have a silvery pubescence on the underside.
- silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
- simple vow — a public vow taken by a religious, under which property may be retained and marriage, though held to be illicit, is valid under canon law.
- skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
- skew lines — two or more lines that lie in different planes, are not parallel, and do not intersect
- sleep with — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- slide show — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
- smile away — to drive away or get rid of by a smile or smiling
- snow devil — a whirling column of snow
- snowmobile — Also called skimobile, snowcat. a motor vehicle with a revolving tread in the rear and steerable skis in the front, for traveling over snow.
- still wine — any nonsparkling table wine.
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.
- stolenwise — in a stealthy or secretive manner
- sweetishly — in a sweetish manner
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- swipe left — to move a finger from right to left across a touchscreen in order to dismiss an image
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- swivel gun — a gun mounted on a pedestal so that it can be turned from side to side or up and down.
- swiveltree — swingletree.
- table wine — a wine that contains not more than 14 percent alcohol and is usually served as an accompaniment to food.
- televiewer — a person who watches television
- telewriter — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting by converting the manually controlled movements of a pen into signals that, after transmission, control the movements of a similar pen
- the wirral — a peninsula in NW England between the estuaries of the Rivers Mersey and Dee
- thimblewit — a silly or dimwitted person; dunce
- tidal wave — (not in technical use) a large, destructive ocean wave, produced by a seaquake, hurricane, or strong wind. Compare tsunami.
- tinseltown — Hollywood, California, as a center of the movie industry.
- towel rail — a rail or frame in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on