10-letter words containing w, e, l, a
- cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
- casualwear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- caterwauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caterwaul.
- chainwheel — a toothed wheel that meshes with a roller chain to transmit motion
- clausewitz — Karl von (karl fɔn). 1780–1831, Prussian general, noted for his works on military strategy, esp Vom Kriege (1833)
- clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
- clean wool — wool that has been scoured to remove wax
- clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
- clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
- cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- commonweal — the good of the community
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- crawlspace — (in a building) an area accessible by crawling, having a clearance less than human height, for access to plumbing or wiring, storage, etc.
- 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
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- de la warr — Baron, title of Thomas West, known as Lord Delaware. 1577–1618, English administrator in America; first governor of Virginia (1610)
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- decree-law — an executive decree made pursuant to a delegation from the legislature and having the full force of legislation.
- delawarean — of or relating to the state of Delaware or its inhabitants
- delta wave — any of the slowest electrical brain waves, having frequencies less than four hertz and indicating, in adults, deep sleep or brain disease
- delta wing — a triangular sweptback aircraft wing
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- downfallen — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
- downloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of download.
- downloader — Someone who downloads files from the Internet.
- downplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of downplay.
- downscaled — Simple past tense and past participle of downscale.
- draw slide — dark slide (def 1).
- draw table — a table having one or more sliding leaves that may be drawn out as an extension.
- draw-slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- dreamworld — A fantastic or idealized view of life.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dwarf male — a male animal that is much smaller, and often internally simpler, than its female counterpart. Dwarf males are commonly carried by the female, as in species of angler fish
- eagle-hawk — a large aggressive Australian eagle, Aquila audax
- early wood — springwood.
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- enamelware — Enameled kitchenware.
- face towel — a small towel for the face.
- fallowness — (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
- false dawn — zodiacal light occurring before sunrise.
- falseworks — Plural form of falsework.