10-letter words containing w
- downslides — Plural form of downslide.
- downspouts — Plural form of downspout.
- downstairs — down the stairs.
- downstater — A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York.
- downstream — upstream
- downstreet — Toward the lower part of a street.
- downstroke — a downward stroke, as of a machine part, piston, or the like.
- downswings — Plural form of downswing.
- downthrows — Plural form of downthrow.
- downtowner — Someone from downtown.
- downtrends — Plural form of downtrend.
- downturned — Turned downwards.
- downwardly — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- downwashes — Plural form of downwash.
- draw poker — a variety of poker in which a player is dealt five cards and, after an initial bet, may discard usually up to three of these cards and receive replacements from the dealer.
- draw slide — dark slide (def 1).
- draw table — a table having one or more sliding leaves that may be drawn out as an extension.
- 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.
- drawbridge — a bridge of which the whole or a section may be drawn up, let down, or drawn aside, to prevent access or to leave a passage open for boats, barges, etc.
- drawing-in — the act or process of threading warp ends through the heddle eyes of the harness and the dents of the reed according to a given plan for weaving a fabric.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drawlingly — Speaking with a drawl.
- drawn work — ornamental work done by drawing threads from a fabric, the remaining portions usually being formed into lacelike patterns by needlework.
- 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.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- dreamworld — A fantastic or idealized view of life.
- 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.
- drill down — bore a hole
- drinkwater — John, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- drownproof — to teach (a person) the technique of drownproofing.
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- drowsiness — half-asleep; sleepy.
- drudgework — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- duniwassal — (in Scotland) a minor nobleman
- dust whirl — dust devil.
- dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- dvd writer — A DVD writer is the same as a DVD burner.
- dwarf door — a door of approximately half normal height, as the lower half of a Dutch door.
- dwarf male — a male animal that is much smaller, and often internally simpler, than its female counterpart. Dwarf males are commonly carried by the female, as in species of angler fish
- 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.