11-letter words containing a, l, o, w, i
- slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- social wasp — any of several wasps, as the hornets or yellowjackets, that live together in a community.
- social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
- stanislawow — Polish name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- swallowtail — the tail of a swallow or a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow.
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- view halloa — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
- view halloo — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
- waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
- waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
- waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
- walk on air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- warriorlike — Like a warrior.
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- way of life — lifestyle
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
- whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
- william joy — (person) (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
- willow wand — a slender stick or rod made of willow used especially in magic or divination
- willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
- wine gallon — a former English gallon of 160 fluid ounces: equal to the present U.S. standard gallon of 128 fluid ounces.
- wing collar — a stand-up collar having the front edges or corners folded down, worn by men for formal or evening dress.
- womanliness — like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
- workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
- workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- workmanlike — like or befitting a workman.
- world war i — the war (1914–18), fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, in which the Allies (principally France, Russia, Britain, Italy after 1915, and the US after 1917) defeated the Central Powers (principally Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey). The war was precipitated by the assassination of Austria's crown prince (Archduke Franz Ferdinand) at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 and swiftly developed its major front in E France, where millions died in static trench warfare. After the October Revolution (1917) the Bolsheviks ended Russian participation in the war (Dec 15, 1917). The exhausted Central Powers agreed to an armistice on Nov 11, 1918 and quickly succumbed to internal revolution, before being forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) and other treaties
- worm lizard — any of numerous burrowing, primarily legless lizards of the suborder Amphisbaenia, mostly inhabiting tropical areas and resembling an earthworm in shape.
- worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
- yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
- yellowtails — Plural form of yellowtail.