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10-letter words containing w, r, s

  • savile row — a street in Mayfair, London, famous for expensive and fashionable clothes shops
  • saw doctor — a sawmill specialist who sharpens and services saw blades
  • scare away — frighten off sb, sth
  • scharwenka — (Ludwig) Philipp [loot-vikh fee-lip] /ˈlut vɪx ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1847–1917, German composer.
  • schoolward — towards or in the direction of school
  • schoolwork — the material studied in or for school, comprising homework and work done in class.
  • schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • 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.
  • score draw — A score draw is the result of a football match in which both teams score at least one goal, and they score the same number of goals.
  • 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 bean — a tree, Prosopis pubescens, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., bearing twisted pods used as fodder.
  • screw hook — a hook having a shank in the form of a screw.
  • screw jack — jackscrew.
  • 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.
  • screwed up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • screwiness — the state or quality of being screwy
  • 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.
  • scrollwise — like a scroll, in a way similar to a scroll
  • scrollwork — decorative work in which scroll forms figure prominently.
  • scrub fowl — megapode.
  • scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
  • 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.
  • second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
  • sedge wren — a small wren, Cistothorus platensis, of the Americas, inhabiting wet, sedgy meadows.
  • self-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
  • self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • self-wrong — wrong done to oneself.
  • setterwort — the wild plant Helleborus foetidus
  • sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
  • sex worker — prostitution.
  • sharawadgi — a form of Chinese landscape architecture known for its irregular and asymmetrical plantings
  • shearwater — any of several long-winged petrels of the genus Puffinus that appear to shear the water with their wing tips when flying low.
  • 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.
  • shopwalker — a floorwalker.
  • short wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • shortsword — a short-bladed sword
  • shot tower — a tower from the top of which finely divided streams of molten lead are dropped down a central well, breaking up into spherical drops during their fall to be quenched and hardened in a tank of water at the bottom.
  • 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.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
  • shower gel — liquid soap product
  • shower tea — kitchen tea.
  • showerhead — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
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