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10-letter words containing w, e, i

  • 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.
  • cabin crew — The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
  • 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
  • carl lewisCarl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
  • catwhisker — a sharply pointed, flexible wire used to make contact with a specific point on a semiconductor or a crystal detector
  • chainwheel — a toothed wheel that meshes with a roller chain to transmit motion
  • chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
  • cheesewire — a piece of wire used for cutting cheese
  • chief town — a town or city that is the administrative centre of a region
  • chief whip — the highest-ranking or principal whip in a legislature or parliamaent
  • child wife — a very young wife.
  • china-ware — dishes, ornaments, etc., made of china.
  • chinawares — dishes, ornaments, etc., made of china.
  • chinwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag.
  • clausewitz — Karl von (karl fɔn). 1780–1831, Prussian general, noted for his works on military strategy, esp Vom Kriege (1833)
  • clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
  • clew lines — the ropes connecting the clews of a sail with the yard, used in raising or lowering the sail
  • close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
  • cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
  • cobwebsite — (jargon, web)   A website that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead web page.
  • codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
  • copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
  • cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
  • cornerwise — with a corner in front; diagonally
  • cosmic web — a network of filaments of dark matter, believed by many astronomers to form the basis of the universe
  • countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
  • cow killer — a large velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) of the S and E U.S.: the wingless female has a powerful sting
  • cowberries — Plural form of cowberry.
  • coweringly — in a cowering manner
  • cowfeteria — a calf feeder with multiple teats
  • crack wise — to joke or gibe
  • crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
  • crew chief — the head of a crew, especially for maintenance of aircraft or racing cars.
  • crewelling — the art of making crewelwork
  • crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
  • cross wire — cross hair (def 1).
  • crown fire — a forest fire that spreads along treetops, often at great speeds.
  • crownpiece — the piece forming or fitting the top of something
  • cruisewear — clothing which is suitable for wearing while on a cruise
  • czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
  • 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
  • deadweight — (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
  • death wish — A death wish is a conscious or unconscious desire to die or be killed.
  • decwindows — DEC's windowing environment based on the X Window System.
  • delta wing — a triangular sweptback aircraft wing
  • denis howe — (person)   Denis B. Howe (1960 -) Editor of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
  • despawning — Present participle of despawn.
  • devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
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