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10-letter words containing w

  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • breastwork — a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high
  • brewmaster — a person who is in charge of brewing beer in a brewery
  • brick wall — a wall made out of brick
  • brickworks — a factory or plant where bricks are made
  • bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
  • bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
  • bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
  • bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
  • bridlewise — (of a horse) obedient to the pressure of the reins on the neck rather than to the bit
  • brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
  • bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
  • broadsword — a broad-bladed sword used for cutting rather than stabbing
  • browbeaten — intimidated
  • browbeater — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
  • brown bear — a large ferocious brownish bear, Ursus arctos, inhabiting temperate forests of North America, Europe, and Asia
  • brown belt — a level of expertise just below that of black belt
  • brown bent — a common grass, Agrostis canina, of North America, used for lawns and putting greens because its blades can be clipped very short without injury to the plant.
  • brown coal — a low-quality coal intermediate in grade between peat and lignite
  • brown coat — arriccio.
  • brown deer — a town in SE Wisconsin.
  • brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
  • brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
  • brown nose — a form of light sensitization in cattle
  • brown rice — unpolished rice, in which the grains retain the outer yellowish-brown layer (bran)
  • brown spot — a disease of many plants, characterized by irregular, brownish lesions on the fruit and foliage and by stem cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Ceratophorum setosum or Cephalosporium apii.
  • brown-nose — to curry favor; behave obsequiously.
  • brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
  • brownnoser — a person who brownnoses
  • brownprint — a process of photographic reproduction using a mixture of iron and silver salts to produce a white image on a sepia ground.
  • brownshirt — Nazi stormtrooper
  • brownstone — In the United States, a brownstone is a type of house which was built during the 19th century. Brownstones have a front that is made from a reddish-brown stone.
  • brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
  • buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
  • buff wheel — a wheel for buffing, consisting of a number of leather or canvas disks.
  • buggy whip — horsewhip
  • build down — a process for reducing armaments, especially the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed.
  • build-down — a gradual decrease in nuclear weapons, armed forces, etc., esp. by an agreement in which a smaller number of newer weapons would replace older ones
  • bull wheel — any large driving gear among smaller gears.
  • bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
  • bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
  • bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • butterweed — a North American herbaceous plant, Senecio glabellus, with yellow flowers
  • butterwort — a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae
  • button tow — a kind of ski lift for one person consisting of a pole that has a circular plate at the bottom and is attached to a moving cable. The person places the pole between his or her legs so that the plate takes his or her weight
  • buttondown — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
  • buttonwood — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
  • by the way — You say by the way when you add something to what you are saying, especially something that you have just thought of.
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