10-letter words containing w, r, i
- prewriting — preparatory work for a piece of writing, as idea formulation, an outline, or research.
- prewritten — a past participle of write.
- printwheel — daisy wheel.
- printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
- prize draw — raffle in which sth is won
- prizewoman — a female prize winner
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- prowlingly — in the manner of a prowl
- pull wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- quincewort — Squinancywort.
- qwertyuiop — Filler text.
- rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
- radio wave — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- railwayman — male railway worker
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rapidwrite — (language, tool) A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
- rapier wit — ability to deliver witty and cutting remarks
- raw sienna — a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
- rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- razor wire — concertina wire.
- red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
- reichswehr — the 100,000-man army Germany was permitted to maintain under the Versailles Treaty after World War I: the limit was secretly exceeded.
- reviewable — Reviewable premiums or payments are not guaranteed and may be increased or decreased.
- rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
- rewriteman — a newspaper employee who writes articles from available information or who reworks the copy written by reporters.
- rhine wine — any of numerous varieties of wine produced in the Rhine valley.
- rhone wine — any of numerous varieties of wine produced in the Rhone River valley, between Lyons and the Mediterranean.
- 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
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- right away — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right wing — members of a conservative or reactionary political party, or those opposing extensive political reform.
- right-wing — members of a conservative or reactionary political party, or those opposing extensive political reform.
- rightwards — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- riverwards — towards a river
- rottweiler — one of a German breed of large, powerful dogs having a short, coarse, black coat with tan to brown markings.
- savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
- schweitzer — Albert, 1875–1965, Alsatian writer, missionary, doctor, and musician in Africa: Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
- schwitters — Kurt [koo rt] /kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1948, German artist.
- screw axis — a symmetry element of a space group such that a rotation of the lattice about the axis and a translation of the lattice some fraction of the lattice's unit distance brings the lattice back to its original position.
- screw nail — drive screw.
- screw pile — a pile that is used for the foundations of bridges, lighthouses, etc., and has a screwlike lower end for drilling through and taking firm hold in compacted material.
- screw pine — any tropical Asian tree or shrub of the genus Pandanus, having a palmlike or branched stem, long, narrow, rigid, spirally arranged leaves and aerial roots, and bearing an edible fruit.
- screwiness — the state or quality of being screwy
- scrollwise — like a scroll, in a way similar to a scroll