10-letter words containing w, s, d
- draw slide — dark slide (def 1).
- draw-sheet — a sheet that can be easily removed from underneath a patient in a bed
- draw-slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
- drawshaves — Plural form of drawshave.
- drawstring — a string or cord that tightens or closes an opening, as of a bag, clothing, or the like, when one or both ends are pulled.
- dress down — of or for a dress or dresses.
- dress-down — pertaining to or being a policy that allows employees to dress less formally than usual: dress-down days during the summer.
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- drowsiness — half-asleep; sleepy.
- duniwassal — (in Scotland) a minor nobleman
- dust whirl — dust devil.
- dwarf star — any of the ordinary main sequence stars, as those of spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
- dwarfishly — In a dwarfish manner.
- earthwards — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- eiderdowns — Plural form of eiderdown.
- endowments — Plural form of endowment.
- eye shadow — make-up for the eyelids
- false dawn — zodiacal light occurring before sunrise.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
- first down — the first of four consecutive plays during which an offensive team must advance the ball at least ten yards to retain possession of it.
- floodwalls — Plural form of floodwall.
- flowerbeds — Plural form of flowerbed.
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshow.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
- ghost word — a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint.
- ghost-weed — snow-on-the-mountain.
- go down as — If you say that an event or action will go down as a particular thing, you mean that it will be regarded, remembered, or recorded as that thing.
- go towards — If an amount of money goes towards something, it is used to pay part of the cost of that thing.
- god's word — the Bible.
- goldwasser — a liqueur flavored with spices, figs, lemons, and herbs, and having minute flakes of gold leaf in suspension.
- goldwynism — a phrase or statement involving a humorous and supposedly unintentional misuse of idiom, as “Keep a stiff upper chin,” especially such a statement attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, as “Include me out.”.
- good show! — an exclamation of appreciation and congratulations on another's accomplishment
- greasewood — a shrub, Sarcobatus vermiculatus, of the amaranth family, growing in alkaline regions of the western U.S., containing a small amount of oil.
- greatsword — Any generally straight bladed double edged sword large enough that it required the use of two hands to wield it effectively.
- greensward — green, grassy turf.
- greenweeds — Plural form of greenweed.
- greenwoods — Plural form of greenwood.
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hands down — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-down — easy: a hands-down victory.
- heads down — [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
- headwaters — The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
- herdswoman — The female equivalent of a herdsman.
- herdswomen — Plural form of herdswoman.
- horsedrawn — Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.