10-letter words containing w, l, a, d
- newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
- nonallowed — Not allowed.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
- rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
- 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.
- rewardable — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
- salad bowl — a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.
- sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- schoolward — towards or in the direction of school
- shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
- shadowless — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shield law — a law protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources of information.
- shieldwall — a protective wall formed by interlocking the shields of foot soldiers
- smallsword — a light, tapering sword for thrusting, formerly used in fencing or dueling.
- smallworld — (legal) A trademark of Smallworldwide Plc..
- snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
- solar wind — an emanation from the sun's corona consisting of a flow of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, that interacts with the magnetic field of the earth and other planetary bodies.
- speedwalks — power walking.
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- tanglewood — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
- tidal wave — (not in technical use) a large, destructive ocean wave, produced by a seaquake, hurricane, or strong wind. Compare tsunami.
- twice-laid — made from strands of used rope.
- two-tailed — (of a significance test) concerned with the hypothesis that an observed value of a sampling statistic differs significantly from a given value, where an error in either direction is relevant: for instance, in testing the fairness of scales, an inspector will seek to exclude both overweight and underweight goods
- unavowedly — in an unavowed or concealed manner
- unbewailed — not bewailed or grieved for; unlamented
- unhallowed — not hallowed or consecrated; not regarded as holy or sacred: unhallowed ground.
- untowardly — in an untoward manner
- uphillward — in an uphill direction
- video wall — A video wall is a set of video screens that are connected together, so that each screen shows a part of the whole picture or so that the same picture is repeated on each screen.
- wadi halfa — a former town in the N Sudan, on the Nile: now under the waters of Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam in S Egypt.
- wagonloads — Plural form of wagonload.
- waldemar i — ("the Great") 1131–82, king of Denmark 1157–82.
- waldenburg — German name of Wałbrzych.
- waldensian — a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.
- waldgraves — Plural form of waldgrave.
- walkaround — A competitive dance in blackface minstrel shows of the 19th century.
- wallboards — Plural form of wallboard.
- walnutwood — the wood of a walnut tree
- wanderlust — a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about.
- war clouds — sign of trouble ahead
- warlording — (Internet) The act of denouncing, dissecting or mocking bloated signature blocks in Usenet postings.
- warlordism — a military leader, especially of a warlike nation.
- waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
- wastelands — Plural form of wasteland.