10-letter words containing w, e, r, l
- clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- close work — work that involves focusing your eyes on a nearby object, such as a book or computer screen, for a prolonged period of time
- 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-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- coneflower — any North American plant of the genera Rudbeckia, Ratibida, and Echinacea, which have rayed flowers with a conelike centre: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cornflower — Cornflowers are small plants with flowers that are usually blue.
- cow killer — a large velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) of the S and E U.S.: the wingless female has a powerful sting
- coweringly — in a cowering manner
- 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.
- crewellery — crewelwork
- crewelling — the art of making crewelwork
- crewelwork — embroidery done with crewel
- crown lens — a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
- cut flower — any pretty flower cut for a floral arrangement.
- de la warr — Baron, title of Thomas West, known as Lord Delaware. 1577–1618, English administrator in America; first governor of Virginia (1610)
- decree-law — an executive decree made pursuant to a delegation from the legislature and having the full force of legislation.
- deflowered — Simple past tense and past participle of deflower.
- deflowerer — One who deflowers.
- delawarean — of or relating to the state of Delaware or its inhabitants
- 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?
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- downloader — Someone who downloads files from the Internet.
- 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.
- drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- 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
- early wood — springwood.
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- elbow room — Elbow room is the freedom to do what you want to do or need to do in a particular situation.
- elbow-rest — something designed for resting one's elbow on
- enamelware — Enameled kitchenware.
- falseworks — Plural form of falsework.
- farewelled — Simple past tense and past participle of farewell.
- fellwalker — a person who hikes over fells
- field work — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
- fingerbowl — a small bowl filled with water for rinsing the fingers at the table after a meal
- firewalled — Simple past tense and past participle of firewall.
- flag-waver — a person who signals by waving a flag.
- flat-water — pertaining to or moving over a calm, level, or slow-flowing water channel.
- floodwater — the water that overflows as the result of a flood.
- flow mixer — A flow mixer is a mixer with a short contact time, used in a continuous process or stage.