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10-letter words containing w, e, n, i

  • nut weevil — any of several snout beetles of the genus Balaninus, the larvae of which live in and feed on nuts and acorns.
  • onion weed — a plant of Australia and New Zealand, Nuthoscordum inodorum, having a strong onion-like smell and reproducing from bulbs and seeds
  • outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
  • overwinter — to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
  • pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
  • penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
  • periwinkle — Also called myrtle. a trailing plant, Vinca minor, of the dogbane family, having glossy, evergreen foliage and usually blue-violet flowers.
  • piano wire — a very thin steel wire of high tensile strength.
  • pigeonwing — a particular figure in skating, outlining the spread wing of a pigeon.
  • pin wrench — a wrench having a pin for insertion into the heads of certain bolts to drive them. Compare spanner (def 2).
  • pine straw — fallen pine needles.
  • planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
  • point-wise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
  • power line — a line for conducting electric power.
  • powerpoint — (graphics, tool)   A Microsoft application for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc.
  • powertrain — (in a motorized vehicle) the whole mechanism by which power is generated and transmitted to the road, surrounding air, water, etc
  • prewarning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
  • preweaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • prewriting — preparatory work for a piece of writing, as idea formulation, an outline, or research.
  • prewritten — a past participle of write.
  • printwheel — daisy wheel.
  • prizewoman — a female prize winner
  • quiet down — stop talking so loudly
  • quincewort — Squinancywort.
  • rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
  • randomwise — in a random manner
  • raw sienna — a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
  • rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
  • rewriteman — a newspaper employee who writes articles from available information or who reworks the copy written by reporters.
  • rhine wine — any of numerous varieties of wine produced in the Rhine valley.
  • rhone wine — any of numerous varieties of wine produced in the Rhone River valley, between Lyons and the Mediterranean.
  • sandwiched — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
  • screw nail — drive screw.
  • screw pine — any tropical Asian tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots, and bearing an edible fruit.
  • screwiness — the state or quality of being screwy
  • sewing bee — a small informal social gathering (usually of women) based around the activity of making or mending clothes or other things with a needle and thread
  • sewing kit — A sewing kit is a small package containing items, such as needles and thread, that you need to sew something.
  • sidewinder — a severe swinging blow from the side.
  • sinewiness — having strong sinews: a sinewy back.
  • skew lines — two or more lines that lie in different planes, are not parallel, and do not intersect
  • skywritten — created by the process of skywriting
  • snow devil — a whirling column of snow
  • snow-white — white as snow.
  • snowmobile — Also called skimobile, snowcat. a motor vehicle with a revolving tread in the rear and steerable skis in the front, for traveling over snow.
  • songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
  • stemwinder — a stemwinding watch.
  • stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
  • still wine — any nonsparkling table wine.
  • stolenwise — in a stealthy or secretive manner
  • straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
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