10-letter words containing w, r, i
- sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
- sharawadgi — a form of Chinese landscape architecture known for its irregular and asymmetrical plantings
- shipwright — a person who builds and launches wooden vessels or does carpentry work in connection with the building and launching of steel or iron vessels.
- shirtwaist — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
- 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.
- sidewinder — a severe swinging blow from the side.
- siegeworks — constructions built by a besieging force
- silkgrower — a person who breeds silkworms for their silk
- silverware — articles, especially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc.
- silverweed — a plant, Potentilla anserina, of the rose family, the leaves of which have a silvery pubescence on the underside.
- silverwork — fine or decorative work executed in silver.
- skywriting — the act or technique of writing against the sky with chemically produced smoke released from a maneuvering airplane.
- skywritten — created by the process of skywriting
- slow loris — loris (def 2).
- slow virus — a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before producing symptoms, as in several neurological diseases, including kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
- snow train — a train that takes passengers to and from a winter resort area.
- social war — Greek History. the war between Athens and its confederates, 357–355 b.c.
- 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.
- solid word — a word written or printed as single word without a hyphen
- songwriter — a person who writes the words or music, or both, for popular songs.
- spider web — the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.
- spiderwork — a thing which has the appearance of a spider's web
- spiderwort — any plant of the genus Tradescantia, having blue, purple, or rose-colored flowers.
- springwood — the part of an annual ring of wood, characterized by large, thin-walled cells, formed during the first part of the growing season.
- springwort — a plant with magical powers, mentioned in fables and folklore but not identified
- squarewise — in a square position or shape
- stemwinder — a stemwinding watch.
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.
- stitchwork — embroidery or needlework.
- stitchwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Stellaria, of the pink family, having white flowers.
- straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
- streetwise — street-smart.
- strip away — remove entirely
- strip down — remove paint or wallpaper from
- strip show — a form of entertainment in which one or more people take off their clothes in a titillating and erotic manner, often to music
- strip-wash — a thorough, all-over wash with a flannel, sponge, etc, and water but without getting into a bath or shower
- supertwist — the effect of twisting light rays to produce a high-resolution liquid crystal display
- swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
- sweatshirt — a loose, long-sleeved, collarless pullover of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, with close-fitting or elastic cuffs and sometimes a drawstring at the waist, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- sweetbrier — a rose, Rosa eglanteria, of Europe and central Asia, having a tall stem, stout, hooked prickles often mixed with bristles, and single, pink flowers.
- sweltering — suffering oppressive heat.
- swi-prolog — (programming) A Prolog by Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> like a superset of Edinburgh Prolog. Version 1.7.2. Docking Station is distributed under General Public License. It runs on Sun-4, Sun-3, Linux, DEC MIPS (incomplete), RS/6000, PS2/AIX, Atari ST, Gould PN, NeXT, VAX, HP-UX (problems), MS-DOS, and OS/2. Mailing list: [email protected]
- swimfeeder — a device containing bait, attached to the line to ensure the gradual baiting of the swim from under the surface
- swing door — a door that swings open on being pushed or pulled from either side and then swings closed by itself.
- swinglebar — a whiffletree.
- swinnerton — Frank (Arthur) 1884–1982, English novelist and critic.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- swiss roll — A swiss roll is a cylindrical cake made from a thin flat sponge which is covered with jam or cream on one side, then rolled up.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.