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10-letter words containing l, w

  • 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.
  • 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
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • cadwalader — 7th century ad, legendary king of the Britons, probably a confusion of several historical figures
  • callowness — immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
  • camberwell — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.
  • candlewick — unbleached cotton or muslin into which loops of yarn are hooked and then cut to give a tufted pattern. It is used for bedspreads, dressing gowns, etc
  • candlewood — the resinous wood of any of several trees, used for torches and candle substitutes
  • carl lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
  • cartwheels — Plural form of cartwheel.
  • casualwear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
  • cat's-claw — an acacia shrub (Acacia greggii) native to the Southwest and northern Mexico, having spikes of yellow flowers and thorns resembling claws
  • caterwauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caterwaul.
  • chainwheel — a toothed wheel that meshes with a roller chain to transmit motion
  • child wife — a very young wife.
  • chilliwack — city in S British Columbia, Canada: pop. 60,000
  • chuckwalla — a lizard, Sauromalus obesus, that has an inflatable body and inhabits desert regions of the southwestern US: family Iguanidae (iguanas)
  • clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
  • clamp-down — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
  • clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
  • clanswoman — a woman belonging to a clan
  • clausewitz — Karl von (karl fɔn). 1780–1831, Prussian general, noted for his works on military strategy, esp Vom Kriege (1833)
  • clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
  • clean wool — wool that has been scoured to remove wax
  • clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
  • clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
  • clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
  • clew lines — the ropes connecting the clews of a sail with the yard, used in raising or lowering the sail
  • click-wrap — a license agreement that appears as an icon during the setup of a software program or online service and must be clicked on to agree to its terms.
  • climb down — If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands.
  • climb-down — a retreat, as from an indefensible opinion or position.
  • close down — to cease or cause to cease operations
  • close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
  • close work — work that involves focusing your eyes on a nearby object, such as a book or computer screen, for a prolonged period of time
  • closedowns — Plural form of closedown.
  • clownishly — In a clownish, undignified, or foolish manner; absurdly, ridiculously.
  • clownology — The study of being a clown.
  • club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
  • cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
  • cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
  • codewalker — (programming, tool)   A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
  • codswallop — If you describe something that someone has just said as codswallop, you mean that you think it is nonsense.
  • cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
  • cold-drawn — (of metal wire, bars, etc) having been drawn unheated through a die to reduce dimensions, toughen, and improve surface finish
  • cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
  • colourwash — a coloured distemper
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