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.