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10-letter words containing w, e, l, a

  • meadowland — an area or section of land that is a meadow or is used or kept as a meadow.
  • meadowlark — any of several American songbirds of the genus Sturnella, of the family Icteridae, especially S. magna (eastern meadowlark) and S. neglecta (western meadowlark) having a brownish and black back and wings and a yellow breast, noted for their clear, tuneful song.
  • metal wood — a structural material consisting of a sheet of metal glued between two veneers or of a veneer glued between two sheets of metal.
  • metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
  • middleware — Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network.
  • miles away — If you say that someone is miles away, you mean that they are unaware of what is happening around them because they are thinking about something else.
  • moonwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of moonwalk.
  • moonwalker — One who moonwalks; an astronaut who has walked on the moon.
  • navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
  • nearly new — Nearly new items are items for sale that have belonged to another person but have not been used much and are still in very good condition. A nearly new shop sells nearly new items.
  • new albany — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
  • new candle — candela
  • new castle — a city in W Pennsylvania.
  • new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
  • new-collar — pertaining to or designating middle-class wage earners holding jobs in a service industry.
  • newby hall — a mansion near Ripon in Yorkshire: built in 1705 and altered (1770–76) by Robert Adam
  • newfangled — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
  • news flash — flash (def 6).
  • news value — newsworthiness; value in terms of its interest to consumers of published or broadcast news
  • newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
  • noblewoman — a woman of noble birth or rank.
  • nonallowed — Not allowed.
  • nonrenewal — the fact or act of not renewing
  • on welfare — the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
  • oral vowel — an ordinary vowel that is produced without nasalization
  • oxbow lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
  • oxbow-lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
  • palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
  • parawalker — a metal structure fitted over the body to enable a disabled person to walk
  • parcelwise — bit by bit
  • patent law — the law relating to patents
  • pea weevil — a seed beetle, Bruchus pisorum, the larvae of which live in and feed on the seeds of the pea plant.
  • peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
  • planer saw — a hollow-ground circular saw for ripping and cutting across grain, having raker teeth for clearing away the chips cut by the cutting teeth.
  • planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
  • playfellow — a playmate.
  • power play — Football. an aggressive running play in which numerous offensive players converge and forge ahead to block and clear a path for the ball carrier.
  • powerplant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • racewalker — a person who participates in racewalking
  • range wool — the wool of sheep raised west of the Mississippi River, especially in Washington and the Rocky Mountain States.
  • ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
  • real wages — wages evaluated with reference to their purchasing power rather than to the money actually paid
  • real world — the realm of practical or actual experience, as opposed to the abstract, theoretical, or idealized sphere of the classroom, laboratory, etc.: recent college graduates looking for jobs in the real world of rising unemployment.
  • rear wheel — any wheel at the back of a motor vehicle
  • renewables — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • reviewable — Reviewable premiums or payments are not guaranteed and may be increased or decreased.
  • rewardable — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
  • rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
  • ropewalker — a ropedancer.
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