10-letter words containing w, s, r
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- outgrowths — Plural form of outgrowth.
- outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
- outwrestle — to beat or be more successful than in wrestling, or in a struggle
- overbrowse — to browse on (vegetation, land, etc) excessively, in a damaging way; overgraze
- overcrowds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcrowd.
- overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
- overshower — to shower over
- overstrewn — scattered over
- overwisely — in a pretentiously wise manner
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- paper wasp — any of several social wasps, as the yellow jacket or hornet, that construct a nest of a paperlike substance consisting of chewed plant material.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pass water — to urinate
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- planer saw — a hollow-ground circular saw for ripping and cutting across grain, having raker teeth for clearing away the chips cut by the cutting teeth.
- powderless — lacking powder, not involving or containing powder
- power base — a source of authority or influence, especially in politics, founded on support by an organized body of voters, ethnic minority, economic class, etc.: His election as governor gives him a power base for seeking the presidency.
- power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- press view — a showing of a film exclusively for the benefit of the press, before it goes on general release
- presswoman — a female reporter
- presweeten — to sweeten in advance
- printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- 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
- 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.
- radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- ransomware — malware planted illegally in a computer or mobile device that disables its operation or access to its data until the owner or operator pays to regain control or access.
- raree show — peep show.
- 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)
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- rawsthorne — Alan. 1905–71, English composer, whose works include three symphonies, several concertos, and a set of Symphonic Studies (1939)
- real wages — wages evaluated with reference to their purchasing power rather than to the money actually paid
- reichswehr — the 100,000-man army Germany was permitted to maintain under the Versailles Treaty after World War I: the limit was secretly exceeded.
- renewables — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- restharrow — a low, pink-flowered European shrub, Ononis spinosa, of the legume family, having tough roots that hinder the plow or harrow.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- rightwards — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- riverwards — towards a river
- rose-water — having the aroma or fragrance of rose water.
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
- sacred cow — an individual, organization, institution, etc., considered to be exempt from criticism or questioning.
- salt water — water containing a large amount of salt.
- saran wrap — Saran wrap is a thin, clear, stretchy plastic which you use to cover food to keep it fresh.