10-Letter Words Containing: OWNS

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

• a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet

• (furniture) easily assembled and dismantled

• severely repressive actions

• intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system

• initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state

• a very thorough search of a person or a place

• extortion of money (as by blackmail)

• the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue

• a mental or physical breakdown

• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

• a cessation of normal operation

• an analysis into mutually exclusive categories

• (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance

• sudden restriction on an activity

• A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.

• To shift a transmission into a lower gear.

• To function at a lower rate.

• To make less controversial or risky.

• a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line

• a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes