10-letter words containing w
- a good few — You use not a few when you are referring to quite a lot of things or people. You can also use a good few in this way, mainly in British English.
- a raw deal — If you say that you are getting a raw deal, you mean that you are being treated unfairly.
- a wary eye — If you keep a wary eye on something or someone, you are cautious about them and watch them to see what they will do or what will happen to them.
- aardwolves — Plural form of aardwolf.
- acknowledg — Obsolete form of acknowledge.
- acorn worm — any of various small burrowing marine animals of the genus Balanoglossus and related genera, having an elongated wormlike body with an acorn-shaped eversible proboscis at the head end: subphylum Hemichordata (hemichordates)
- act of war — an aggressive act, usually employing military force, which constitutes an immediate threat to peace
- activewear — clothing for wear while engaging in sports, recreation, etc.; sportswear
- afterglows — Plural form of afterglow.
- afterswarm — a secondary (or tertiary) swarm of bees which leaves the colony after the main swarm has left, in the company of a virgin queen
- afterwards — If you do something or if something happens afterwards, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned.
- afterwhile — (US, dialect) afterwards.
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- afterworld — a world inhabited after death
- aid worker — a person who works for an aid agency
- air shower — a shower of secondary cosmic radiation, caused by the interaction of cosmic radiation or gamma radiation with the atmosphere.
- air switch — a switch in which the interruption of the circuit occurs in air.
- aircrewman — a member of an aircrew.
- airwaybill — An airbill.
- alderwoman — (in England and Wales until 1974) one of the senior female members of a local council, elected by other councillors
- alderwomen — Plural form of alderwoman.
- alive with — teeming with; full of (living or moving things)
- all-elbows — (jargon) Said of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) mess-dos program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on BBS systems: unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident. One particularly common form of rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt.
- allhallown — relating to the period of time around Allhallows
- allhallows — All Saints' Day
- allow-none — (programming) An annotation in GTk documentation indicating that the annotated entity may be null.
- allowables — that may be allowed; legitimate; permissible: an allowable tax deduction.
- allowanced — Simple past tense and past participle of allowance.
- allowances — Plural form of allowance.
- aloes wood — eaglewood
- along with — accompanying; together with
- alpha wave — any of the electrical waves from the parietal and occipital regions of the brain, having frequencies from 8 to 13 hertz: a sign of relaxation, since they indicate a lack of sensory stimulation in a conscious person
- altar wine — wine for use in a Eucharistic service.
- angkor wat — the largest and best preserved Khmer temple in the Angkor complex of ruins.
- angwantibo — a rare gold-coloured prosimian primate of tropical Africa, Arctocebus calabarensis, having digits that are specialized as a pair of pincers for climbing: family Lorisidae (lorises)
- anode glow — the luminous region between the positive column and the anode dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- answer for — If you have to answer for something bad or wrong you have done, you are punished for it.
- answerable — If you are answerable to someone, you have to report to them and explain your actions.
- answerback — a reply or answering message from a computer or other electronic device, as by means of teletypewriter or simulated voice.
- answerless — not having or offering an answer
- anthemwise — alternately
- anti-woman — the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man.
- antigrowth — acting to restrict or prevent growth
- anywhither — towards any place; in any direction
- appian way — a Roman road in Italy, extending from Rome to Brindisi: begun in 312 bc by Appius Claudius Caecus. Length: about 560 km (350 miles)
- arrow arum — a North American plant, Peltandra virginica, of wet areas, having large, arrow-shaped leaves and inconspicuous flowers enclosed in a narrow, pointed spathe.
- arrowgrass — either of two species, sea arrowgrass (Triglochin maritima) or marsh arrowgrass (T. palustris), of monocotyledonous perennials having long thin fleshy leaves and spikes of inconspicuous flowers
- arrowheads — Plural form of arrowhead.
- arrowsmith — a novel (1925) by Sinclair Lewis.
- as a whole — If you refer to something as a whole, you are referring to it generally and as a single unit.
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