10-letter words containing w
- quiet down — stop talking so loudly
- quincewort — Squinancywort.
- qwertyuiop — Filler text.
- rabinowitz — Solomon, Aleichem, Sholom.
- racewalker — a person who participates in racewalking
- radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
- radio wave — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- railwayman — male railway worker
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- range wool — the wool of sheep raised west of the Mississippi River, especially in Washington and the Rocky Mountain States.
- 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.
- rapidwrite — (language, tool) A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
- rapier wit — ability to deliver witty and cutting remarks
- 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)
- rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
- 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)
- ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- razor wire — concertina wire.
- real wages — wages evaluated with reference to their purchasing power rather than to the money actually paid
- real world — the realm of practical or actual experience, as opposed to the abstract, theoretical, or idealized sphere of the classroom, laboratory, etc.: recent college graduates looking for jobs in the real world of rising unemployment.
- rear wheel — any wheel at the back of a motor vehicle
- red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
- reform jew — a Jew who adheres to a system of religious worship adapted from Orthodox Judaism to meet the demands of contemporary life, frequently simplifying or rejecting traditional religious law and custom.
- 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.
- renownedly — celebrated; famous.
- restharrow — a low, pink-flowered European shrub, Ononis spinosa, of the legume family, having tough roots that hinder the plow or harrow.
- reviewable — Reviewable premiums or payments are not guaranteed and may be increased or decreased.
- rewardable — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- rewritable — A rewritable CD or DVD is a CD or DVD that you can record onto more than once. Compare recordable.
- rewriteman — a newspaper employee who writes articles from available information or who reworks the copy written by reporters.
- rhine wine — any of numerous varieties of wine produced in the Rhine valley.
- rhone wine — any of numerous varieties of wine produced in the Rhone River valley, between Lyons and the Mediterranean.
- ribbonwood — a small evergreen malvaceous tree, Hoheria populnea, of New Zealand. Its wood is used in furniture making and the tough bark for making cord
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- right away — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right wing — members of a conservative or reactionary political party, or those opposing extensive political reform.
- right-wing — members of a conservative or reactionary political party, or those opposing extensive political reform.
- rightwards — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- riverwards — towards a river
- roadworthy — in suitable operating condition or meeting accepted standards for safe driving on the road: a roadworthy automobile.
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- ropewalker — a ropedancer.
- rose-water — having the aroma or fragrance of rose water.
- rottweiler — one of a German breed of large, powerful dogs having a short, coarse, black coat with tan to brown markings.
- rough work — a preliminary work in preparation for a sketch, report, piece of work, etc
- rough-hewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.