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10-letter words that end in w

  • in my view — You use in my view when you want to indicate that you are stating a personal opinion, which other people might not agree with.
  • in the raw — uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.
  • irish stew — a stew usually made of mutton, lamb, or beef, with potatoes, onions, etc.
  • johnny law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
  • johnny raw — a novice; new recruit
  • key escrow — (security)   A controversial arrangement where the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt messages which they suspect to be relevant to national security.
  • labour law — those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions
  • laser show — a display of coloured laser lights for entertainment purposes, often accompanying a music concert, etc
  • last straw — the last of a succession of irritations, incidents, remarks, etc., that leads to a loss of patience, a disaster, etc.: He has been late before, but this is the last straw.
  • lay sb low — If a disease or illness lays you low, it makes you weak or ill.
  • lead screw — (on a lathe) a rotating horizontal screw for moving the tool carriage along the work at a constant rate.
  • left arrow — (character)   The graphic which the 1963 version of ASCII had in place of the underscore character, ASCII 95.
  • lenz's law — the principle that the direction of the current induced in a circuit by a changing magnetic field is such that the magnetic field produced by this current will oppose the original field
  • lie fallow — to remain uncultivated, unused, unproductive, etc. for a time
  • life arrow — an arrowlike projectile for carrying a line for use in maritime rescue operations.
  • light show — a form of entertainment consisting chiefly of constantly changing patterns of light and color, usually accompanied by music and sound effects.
  • linlithgow — former name of West Lothian.
  • longfellow — Henry Wadsworth [wodz-werth] /ˈwɒdz wərθ/ (Show IPA), 1807–82, U.S. poet.
  • longmeadow — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • malus' law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
  • middlebrow — a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.
  • mosaic law — the ancient law of the Hebrews, ascribed to Moses.
  • mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
  • motor show — an exhibition which displays rare, fashionable and expensive cars
  • multi-view — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
  • nearly new — Nearly new items are items for sale that have belonged to another person but have not been used much and are still in very good condition. A nearly new shop sells nearly new items.
  • odd fellow — a member of a social and benevolent society that originated in England in the 18th century.
  • old fellow — old chap.
  • onion snow — a snowfall in late spring; the last snow of the season.
  • overborrow — to borrow too much money
  • overshadow — to be more important or significant by comparison: For years he overshadowed his brother.
  • patent law — the law relating to patents
  • peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • phossy jaw — gangrenous condition of the lower jawbone
  • pine straw — fallen pine needles.
  • planer saw — a hollow-ground circular saw for ripping and cutting across grain, having raker teeth for clearing away the chips cut by the cutting teeth.
  • playfellow — a playmate.
  • poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
  • possum haw — a shrub, Ilex decidua, of the southeastern U.S., having leaves that are hairy on the upper surface and glossy, red fruit.
  • press view — a showing of a film exclusively for the benefit of the press, before it goes on general release
  • prize draw — raffle in which sth is won
  • public law — Also called public act, public statute. a law or statute of a general character that applies to the people of a whole state or nation.
  • quartersaw — to saw (lumber) from quarter sections of logs so that the annual rings in any board form at least a 45° angle with the faces of the board.
  • quick draw — a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.
  • radial saw — a cantilevered circular saw adjustable at various angles to the length of the work and to the perpendicular.
  • raree show — peep show.
  • 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.
  • restharrow — a low, pink-flowered European shrub, Ononis spinosa, of the legume family, having tough roots that hinder the plow or harrow.
  • rubber jaw — a condition in which the mandible becomes demineralized and excessively mobile in animals with advanced renal disease
  • sacred cow — an individual, organization, institution, etc., considered to be exempt from criticism or questioning.
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