10-letter words containing w, r, u
- pequot war — a war in 1637 between Connecticut colonists, aided by British soldiers and friendly Indian tribes, and the Pequot Indians under their chief, Sassacus, that resulted in the defeat and dispersion of the Pequot tribe.
- plow under — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- powderpuff — a soft, feathery ball or pad, as of cotton or down, for applying powder to the skin.
- powerfully — having or exerting great power or force.
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- 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.
- pump-water — water that has been sourced from under soil level by means of a pump
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- pure vowel — a vowel that is pronounced with more or less unvarying quality without any glide; monophthong
- quartersaw — to saw (lumber) from quarter sections of logs so that the annual rings in any board form at least a 45° angle with the faces of the board.
- queensware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
- 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.
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- rough work — a preliminary work in preparation for a sketch, report, piece of work, etc
- rough-hewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- round down — express as previous whole number
- rubber jaw — a condition in which the mandible becomes demineralized and excessively mobile in animals with advanced renal disease
- rubberwear — clothing made of rubber
- rubblework — masonry built of rubble or roughly dressed stones.
- 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.
- scrub fowl — megapode.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- showground — outdoor events venue
- shrewmouse — a shrew.
- shrewsbury — a city now part of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in Salop, in W England.
- 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.
- sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
- snow crust — a relatively hard, upper layer or film of ice or compacted snow on a snow surface.
- 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.
- sou'wester — a waterproof hat, often of oilskin, having the brim very broad behind and slanted, worn especially by seamen.
- southwards — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- spur wheel — spur gear.
- square-law — of or relating to an electronic circuit or device that produces an output voltage proportional to the square of its input voltage over the range of input voltages for which it is designed to function: square-law detector.
- squarewise — in a square position or shape
- stuccowork — moldings, decorative work, or a finish made of stucco.
- sugar bowl — a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
- summerwood — the part of an annual ring of wood, characterized by compact, thick-walled cells, formed during the later part of the growing season.
- super bowl — the annual championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.
- superpower — an extremely powerful nation, especially one capable of influencing international events and the acts and policies of less powerful nations.
- supersweet — extremely sweet
- supertwist — the effect of twisting light rays to produce a high-resolution liquid crystal display
- superwoman — a woman of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
- throughway — a limited-access toll highway providing a means of direct transportation between distant areas for high-speed automobile traffic.
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- trunk show — a showing and sale in a retail store of an entire collection of clothing, jewelry, etc., from a particular designer.