10-letter words containing w, o, n, d
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- north down — a district of E Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 77 110 (2003 est). Area: 82 sq km (32 sq miles)
- northwards — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- oceanwards — Oceanward.
- onion weed — a plant of Australia and New Zealand, Nuthoscordum inodorum, having a strong onion-like smell and reproducing from bulbs and seeds
- open wound — injury in which skin is broken
- orangewood — the hard, fine-grained, yellowish wood of the orange tree, used in inlaid work and fine turnery.
- owen sound — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Georgian Bay of Lake Huron: summer resort.
- pared-down — If you describe something as pared-down, you mean that it has no unnecessary features, and has been reduced to a very simple form.
- plow under — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plunk down — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
- poisonwood — a tree, Metopium toxiferum, of southern Florida, that has compound leaves and yellowish, berrylike fruits and is poisonous to touch.
- power down — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- quiet down — stop talking so loudly
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- renownedly — celebrated; famous.
- ribbonwood — a small evergreen malvaceous tree, Hoheria populnea, of New Zealand. Its wood is used in furniture making and the tough bark for making cord
- round down — express as previous whole number
- rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
- sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- sappanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
- scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
- shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
- shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
- shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- sheet down — (of rain) to fall heavily in sheets
- shift down — When you shift down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- shoot down — the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
- shopwindow — a window used for display of merchandise.
- shout down — silence by speaking more loudly than
- showground — outdoor events venue
- smack down — to humble or reprimand (someone who is overstepping bounds)
- smash down — If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
- sneezewood — a tree, Ptaeroxylon utile, native to southern Africa: family Ptaeroxylaceae
- snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
- snow devil — a whirling column of snow
- snow under — Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
- snow-blind — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
- snowblades — a type of skis, about half the length of normal downhill skis and used without poles
- snowcapped — topped with snow: the snowcapped Alps.
- 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.
- sound wave — a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- splintwood — a thin flexible wood often used for making baskets
- spongewood — an Indian plant with a pith used in making tropical hats
- springwood — the part of an annual ring of wood, characterized by large, thin-walled cells, formed during the first part of the growing season.