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10-letter words containing w

  • party whip — whip (def 21).
  • pass water — to urinate
  • passageway — a way for passing into, through, or out of something, as within a building or between buildings; a corridor, hall, alley, catwalk, or the like.
  • patent law — the law relating to patents
  • pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
  • pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
  • pea weevil — a seed beetle, Bruchus pisorum, the larvae of which live in and feed on the seeds of the pea plant.
  • peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • peckerwood — Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
  • penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
  • pennyworth — as much as may be bought for a penny.
  • pepperwood — California laurel (def 1).
  • pepperwort — water clover.
  • pequot war — a war in 1637 between Connecticut colonists, aided by British soldiers and friendly Indian tribes, and the Pequot Indians under their chief, Sassacus, that resulted in the defeat and dispersion of the Pequot tribe.
  • periwigged — wearing a periwig; by extension, excessively adorned
  • periwinkle — Also called myrtle. a trailing plant, Vinca minor, of the dogbane family, having glossy, evergreen foliage and usually blue-violet flowers.
  • phoney war — A phoney war is when two opposing groups are openly hostile towards each other, as if they were at war, but there is no real fighting.
  • phossy jaw — gangrenous condition of the lower jawbone
  • piano wire — a very thin steel wire of high tensile strength.
  • pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
  • pigeonwing — a particular figure in skating, outlining the spread wing of a pigeon.
  • pilliwinks — an old instrument of torture similar to the thumbscrew.
  • pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
  • pin wrench — a wrench having a pin for insertion into the heads of certain bolts to drive them. Compare spanner (def 2).
  • pine straw — fallen pine needles.
  • pipsissewa — any evergreen plant of the genus Chimaphila, especially C. umbellata, the leaves of which are used medicinally for their tonic, diuretic, and astringent properties.
  • pit sawing — a method of sawing logs or timbers, as into boards, in which the piece to be cut is laid horizontally across a pit and cut by a saw operated vertically by two people, one above and one in the pit below the piece.
  • pit worker — a person who works down a mine, esp a coal miner
  • pitchwoman — a female pitchman
  • piwakawaka — a New Zealand fantail, Rhipidura Fuliginosa
  • plain-wrap — packaged in a plain wrapper, especially one displaying no brand name; no-frills: the growing popularity of plain-wrap products.
  • 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.
  • planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
  • playfellow — a playmate.
  • playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
  • ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
  • plow steel — steel that contains 0.5 to 0.95 percent carbon.
  • plow under — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • plunk down — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
  • pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
  • point-wise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
  • poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
  • poisonwood — a tree, Metopium toxiferum, of southern Florida, that has compound leaves and yellowish, berrylike fruits and is poisonous to touch.
  • poor white — a member of a class of white people, especially of the southern U.S., having low social status and little or no money, property, or education. See also white trash.
  • possum haw — a shrub, Ilex decidua, of the southeastern U.S., having leaves that are hairy on the upper surface and glossy, red fruit.
  • potawatomi — a member of an Algonquian Indian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin.
  • powder boy — powder monkey (def 1).
  • powder keg — a small, metal, barrellike container for gunpowder or blasting powder.
  • powderless — lacking powder, not involving or containing powder
  • powderlike — resembling powder (usually in consistency or texture); powdery
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