10-letter words containing w, e, i, r
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- schweitzer — Albert, 1875–1965, Alsatian writer, missionary, doctor, and musician in Africa: Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
- schwitters — Kurt [koo rt] /kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1948, German artist.
- screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
- 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.
- screw pine — any tropical Asian tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots, and bearing an edible fruit.
- screwiness — the state or quality of being screwy
- scrollwise — like a scroll, in a way similar to a scroll
- sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
- sidewinder — a severe swinging blow from the side.
- siegeworks — constructions built by a besieging force
- 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.
- skywritten — created by the process of skywriting
- songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
- spider web — the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.
- spiderwork — a thing which has the appearance of a spider's web
- spiderwort — any plant of the genus Tradescantia, having blue, purple, or rose-colored flowers.
- squarewise — in a square position or shape
- stemwinder — a stemwinding watch.
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.
- straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
- streetwise — street-smart.
- supertwist — the effect of twisting light rays to produce a high-resolution liquid crystal display
- swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
- sweatshirt — a loose, long-sleeved, collarless pullover of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, with close-fitting or elastic cuffs and sometimes a drawstring at the waist, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- sweetbrier — a rose, Rosa eglanteria, of Europe and central Asia, having a tall stem, stout, hooked prickles often mixed with bristles, and single, pink flowers.
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swimfeeder — a device containing bait, attached to the line to ensure the gradual baiting of the swim from under the surface
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- swinnerton — Frank (Arthur) 1884–1982, English novelist and critic.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- swiveltree — swingletree.
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- 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
- the wrekin — an isolated hill in the English Midlands in Telford and Wrekin unitary authority, Shropshire. Height: 400 m (1335 ft)
- tidewaiter — a customs officer who checks goods upon a vessel's landing, to secure the payment of duties.
- timberwork — structural work formed of timbers.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- towel rail — a rail or frame in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on
- towel ring — a circular hoop in a bathroom, etc, for hanging towels on