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10-letter words containing w, r, a, l

  • 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.
  • marrowless — Anatomy. a soft, fatty, vascular tissue in the interior cavities of bones that is a major site of blood cell production.
  • 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.
  • middleware — Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database and applications, especially on a network.
  • moonwalker — One who moonwalks; an astronaut who has walked on the moon.
  • navelworts — Plural form of navelwort.
  • nearly new — Nearly new items are items for sale that have belonged to another person but have not been used much and are still in very good condition. A nearly new shop sells nearly new items.
  • 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.
  • newsdealer — a person who sells newspapers and periodicals.
  • nonrenewal — the fact or act of not renewing
  • on welfare — the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
  • oral vowel — an ordinary vowel that is produced without nasalization
  • palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
  • parawalker — a metal structure fitted over the body to enable a disabled person to walk
  • parcelwise — bit by bit
  • party wall — a wall used, or usable, as a part of contiguous structures.
  • plain-wrap — packaged in a plain wrapper, especially one displaying no brand name; no-frills: the growing popularity of plain-wrap products.
  • planer saw — a hollow-ground circular saw for ripping and cutting across grain, having raker teeth for clearing away the chips cut by the cutting teeth.
  • playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
  • power play — Football. an aggressive running play in which numerous offensive players converge and forge ahead to block and clear a path for the ball carrier.
  • powerplant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • racewalker — a person who participates in racewalking
  • radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
  • railwayman — male railway worker
  • range wool — the wool of sheep raised west of the Mississippi River, especially in Washington and the Rocky Mountain States.
  • rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
  • ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
  • real wages — wages evaluated with reference to their purchasing power rather than to the money actually paid
  • 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.
  • rear wheel — any wheel at the back of a motor vehicle
  • renewables — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • reviewable — Reviewable premiums or payments are not guaranteed and may be increased or decreased.
  • rewardable — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
  • rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
  • ropewalker — a ropedancer.
  • rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
  • salt water — water containing a large amount of salt.
  • savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
  • schoolward — towards or in the direction of school
  • schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • screw nail — drive screw.
  • screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
  • scroll saw — a narrow saw mounted vertically in a frame and operated with an up-and-down motion, used for cutting curved ornamental designs.
  • sea lawyer — a sailor inclined to question or complain about the orders given.
  • seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
  • self-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
  • shopwalker — a floorwalker.
  • show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
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