10-letter words containing w, e, r, o, a
- hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- hollowware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- hot-walker — a person whose job is walking racehorses after races, workouts, etc. to allow them to cool off gradually
- housewares — (North America) Domestic utensils, especially for the kitchen.
- iron-jawed — having a jaw of or like iron: an iron-jawed press; an iron-jawed fighter.
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- korean war — the war, begun on June 25, 1950, between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, aided by the United States and other United Nations members forming a United Nations armed force: truce signed July 27, 1953.
- lake worth — a city in SE Florida.
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landowners — Plural form of landowner.
- laser show — a display of coloured laser lights for entertainment purposes, often accompanying a music concert, etc
- lawn mower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
- lawnmowers — Plural form of lawnmower.
- left arrow — (character) The graphic which the 1963 version of ASCII had in place of the underscore character, ASCII 95.
- life arrow — an arrowlike projectile for carrying a line for use in maritime rescue operations.
- lollywater — a sweet soft drink, especially one brightly colored.
- loungewear — articles of clothing suitable for wear during leisure time, especially in the home.
- low german — the West Germanic languages not included in the High German group, as English, Dutch, Flemish, or Plattdeutsch. Abbreviation: LG. Compare High German (def 1).
- low-loader — a road or rail vehicle for heavy loads with a low platform for ease of access
- lower back — lumbar region
- lower case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- lower mast — the lowermost spar of a compound mast, stepped in the hull of a vessel and carrying a topmast and any other upper spars.
- lower-case — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- lowercased — Printed or written in lowercase letters.
- madderwort — A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder.
- marblewood — any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
- markswomen — Plural form of markswoman.
- marrowbone — A bone containing edible marrow.
- marrowless — Anatomy. a soft, fatty, vascular tissue in the interior cavities of bones that is a major site of blood cell production.
- masterwork — masterpiece.
- masterwort — a European plant, Astrantia major, of the parsley family, having pinkish-rose or white flower clusters with purplish bracts beneath.
- meadow rue — any of several plants belonging to the genus Thalictrum, of the buttercup family, having leaves resembling those of rue, especially T. dioicum, of North America.
- 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.
- metalworks — Plural form of metalwork.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- microwaves — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- mocha ware — a pottery ware of the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, ornamented with colored glaze worked into branchlike patterns by drops of a diffusing agent applied while the glaze is still wet.
- moonwalker — One who moonwalks; an astronaut who has walked on the moon.
- mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
- moudiewart — a mole
- nameworthy — worthy of or deserving a name
- narrowhead — Applied to various kinds of animals with a narrow head.
- narrowness — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
- 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.
- nonrenewal — the fact or act of not renewing