10-letter words containing l, w
- colwyn bay — a town and resort in N Wales, in Conwy county borough. Pop: 30 269 (2001)
- common law — the body of law based on judicial decisions and custom, as distinct from statute law
- common-law — of, relating to, or established by common law: a common-law spouse.
- commonweal — the good of the community
- coneflower — any North American plant of the genera Rudbeckia, Ratibida, and Echinacea, which have rayed flowers with a conelike centre: family Asteraceae (composites)
- contraflow — A contraflow is a situation in which vehicles travelling on a main road in one direction have to use lanes that are normally used by traffic travelling in the opposite direction, because the road is being repaired.
- cornflower — Cornflowers are small plants with flowers that are usually blue.
- cornwallis — Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis. 1738–1805, British general in the War of American Independence: commanded forces defeated at Yorktown (1781): defeated Tipu Sahib (1791): governor general of Bengal (1786–93, 1805): negotiated the Treaty of Amiens (1801)
- cottonwool — Alternative form of cotton wool.
- cow killer — a large velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) of the S and E U.S.: the wingless female has a powerful sting
- cow pillow — (in India) a large cylindrical pillow stuffed with cotton and used for reclining rather than sleeping
- coweringly — in a cowering manner
- cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
- crawlspace — (in a building) an area accessible by crawling, having a clearance less than human height, for access to plumbing or wiring, storage, etc.
- crewellery — crewelwork
- crewelling — the art of making crewelwork
- crewelwork — embroidery done with crewel
- crosswalks — Plural form of crosswalk.
- crown gall — a disease of peaches, apples, roses, grapes, etc., characterized by the formation of galls on the roots or stems usually at or below ground level, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
- crown land — (in the United Kingdom) land belonging to the Crown
- crown lens — a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
- cut flower — any pretty flower cut for a floral arrangement.
- daisywheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- de la warr — Baron, title of Thomas West, known as Lord Delaware. 1577–1618, English administrator in America; first governor of Virginia (1610)
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- decree-law — an executive decree made pursuant to a delegation from the legislature and having the full force of legislation.
- deflowered — Simple past tense and past participle of deflower.
- deflowerer — One who deflowers.
- delawarean — of or relating to the state of Delaware or its inhabitants
- delta wave — any of the slowest electrical brain waves, having frequencies less than four hertz and indicating, in adults, deep sleep or brain disease
- delta wing — a triangular sweptback aircraft wing
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- disc wheel — a road wheel of a motor vehicle that has a round pressed disc in place of spokes
- disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- dish towel — cloth: for drying dishes
- dishtowels — Plural form of dishtowel.
- disk wheel — a spokeless vehicular wheel, especially on automobiles, having a heavy circular pressed-steel disk mounted on the wheel hub and supporting the tire rim on its outer edge.
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- down-cycle — business: move downward
- downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
- downfallen — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- downlights — Plural form of downlight.