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10-letter words containing w

  • 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.
  • or whoever — You say or whoever to refer vaguely to another person or organization, especially when you are not sure if you have mentioned the right person or organization.
  • oral vowel — an ordinary vowel that is produced without nasalization
  • orangewood — the hard, fine-grained, yellowish wood of the orange tree, used in inlaid work and fine turnery.
  • orb weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Argiopidae, characterized by loosely woven, spiraling webs that have support lines radiating outward from the center.
  • oswego tea — a North American plant, Monarda didyma, of the mint family, having a cluster of showy, bright-red tubular flowers.
  • otherwhere — elsewhere.
  • otherwhile — at another time or other times.
  • otherworld — A world beyond death; an afterlife.
  • outdweller — a person who dwells away from or is remote from a particular place.
  • outflowing — Flowing out.
  • outgrowing — Present participle of outgrow.
  • outgrowths — Plural form of outgrowth.
  • outsweeten — to be sweeter or make things sweeter than
  • outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
  • outweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of outweigh.
  • outwitting — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
  • outworking — to work harder, better, or faster than.
  • outworlder — (scifi) One who comes from another planet.
  • outwrestle — to beat or be more successful than in wrestling, or in a struggle
  • overborrow — to borrow too much money
  • overbrowse — to browse on (vegetation, land, etc) excessively, in a damaging way; overgraze
  • overcrowds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcrowd.
  • overdrawer — a person who overdraws something, especially a bank account.
  • overgrowth — a growth overspreading or covering something.
  • overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
  • overshower — to shower over
  • overstrewn — scattered over
  • overthwart — to lie across
  • overwarmed — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
  • overweight — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
  • overwinter — to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
  • overwisely — in a pretentiously wise manner
  • overworked — to cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work (often used reflexively): Don't overwork yourself on that new job.
  • owen sound — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Georgian Bay of Lake Huron: summer resort.
  • owl monkey — douroucouli.
  • owlet moth — noctuid (def 1).
  • oxbow lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
  • oxbow-lake — a U -shaped piece of wood placed under and around the neck of an ox with its upper ends in the bar of the yoke.
  • paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
  • 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.
  • palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
  • pantywaist — Informal. a weak, effeminate man; sissy.
  • 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.
  • paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
  • parawalker — a metal structure fitted over the body to enable a disabled person to walk
  • parcelwise — bit by bit
  • pared-down — If you describe something as pared-down, you mean that it has no unnecessary features, and has been reduced to a very simple form.
  • part owner — a person who shares in the ownership of something
  • party wall — a wall used, or usable, as a part of contiguous structures.
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