10-letter words containing w, e, l, a, c
- racewalker — a person who participates in racewalking
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scapewheel — escape wheel.
- screw nail — drive screw.
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- space walk — When an astronaut goes on a space walk, he or she leaves the spacecraft and works outside it while floating in space.
- swarm cell — the amebalike germinated spore cell of myxomycetes.
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- towel rack — a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels or washcloths are hung.
- twice-laid — made from strands of used rope.
- unchewable — not able to be chewed; tough
- w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
- wage claim — the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives
- wage scale — a schedule of wages paid workers performing related tasks in an industry or shop.
- water-cool — to cool by means of water, especially by water circulating in pipes or a water jacket, as an engine or machine gun.
- watercolor — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- watercycle — any of various small watercraft that are moved by working pedals or treadles
- webcrawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- well acted — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- well-acted — anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- wenceslaus — 1361–1419, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1378–1400; as Wenceslaus IV, king of Bohemia 1378–1419.
- werejackal — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a jackal.
- whale calf — the young of a whale
- whalebacks — Plural form of whaleback.
- wheel arch — The wheel arch is the semicircular part positioned above the wheel of a vehicle.
- wheel back — a chair back having the form of a circle or oval with spindles or bars meeting at the center.
- wheelchair — a chair mounted on wheels for use by persons who cannot walk.
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- wholescale — Wholesale (extensive).
- wildcarded — (computing) Replaced or supplemented with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
- wildcatted — Simple past tense and past participle of wildcat.
- wildcatter — an oil prospector.
- wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- worldscale — the standard scale of freight rates for oil tankers
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.