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10-letter words containing w

  • seal brown — a rich, dark brown suggestive of dressed and dyed sealskin.
  • second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
  • sedge wren — a small wren, Cistothorus platensis, of the Americas, inhabiting wet, sedgy meadows.
  • self-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
  • self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • self-wrong — wrong done to oneself.
  • semiweekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
  • semmelweis — Ignaz Philipp [ig-nahts fee-lip] /ˈɪg nɑts ˈfi lɪp/ (Show IPA), 1818–65, Hungarian obstetrician.
  • setterwort — the wild plant Helleborus foetidus
  • sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
  • sewage gas — gas given off in the digestion of sewage consisting of approximately 66 per cent methane and 34 per cent carbon dioxide
  • sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
  • sewing bee — a small informal social gathering (usually of women) based around the activity of making or mending clothes or other things with a needle and thread
  • sewing kit — A sewing kit is a small package containing items, such as needles and thread, that you need to sew something.
  • sex worker — prostitution.
  • shadow box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
  • shadow pin — a vertical pin set in an azimuth instrument or at the center of a compass card, indicating by the direction of its shadow the azimuth of the sun.
  • shadow-box — a shallow, rectangular frame fronted with a glass panel, used to show and at the same time protect items on display, as paintings, coins, or jewelry.
  • shadowcast — to enhance (a microscope image) by exposing it to a stream of a vapour of a heavy metal in order to create a shadow
  • shadowland — a land or region of shadows, phantoms, unrealities, or uncertainties: the shadowland of imagination.
  • shadowless — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shadowlike — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  • shake down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shake-down — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shallowest — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • shantytown — a section, as of a city or town, characterized by shanties and crudely built houses.
  • sharawadgi — a form of Chinese landscape architecture known for its irregular and asymmetrical plantings
  • shawinigan — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • shearwater — any of several long-winged petrels of the genus Puffinus that appear to shear the water with their wing tips when flying low.
  • sheet down — (of rain) to fall heavily in sheets
  • shield law — a law protecting journalists from forced disclosure of confidential sources of information.
  • shieldwall — a protective wall formed by interlocking the shields of foot soldiers
  • shift down — When you shift down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
  • shipwright — a person who builds and launches wooden vessels or does carpentry work in connection with the building and launching of steel or iron vessels.
  • shirtwaist — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shock wave — a region of abrupt change of pressure and density moving as a wave front at or above the velocity of sound, caused by an intense explosion or supersonic flow over a body.
  • shoot down — the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
  • shopwalker — a floorwalker.
  • shopwindow — a window used for display of merchandise.
  • short wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • short-wave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
  • shortsword — a short-bladed sword
  • shot tower — a tower from the top of which finely divided streams of molten lead are dropped down a central well, breaking up into spherical drops during their fall to be quenched and hardened in a tank of water at the bottom.
  • shout down — silence by speaking more loudly than
  • show a leg — to get up in the morning
  • show house — theater (def 1).
  • show trial — (especially in a totalitarian state) the public trial of a political offender conducted chiefly for propagandistic purposes, as to suppress further dissent against the government by making an example of the accused.
  • show-place — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
  • showboater — a boat, especially a paddle-wheel steamer, used as a traveling theater.
  • showcasing — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
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