11-letter words containing a, r, d, w, o
- soft sawder — flattery; compliments
- southwardly — toward the south
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- sword dance — any of various dances, usually performed by men, in which swords are ceremonially flourished or are laid on the ground and danced around.
- sword grass — any of various grasses or plants having swordlike or sharp leaves, as the sword lily.
- swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
- swordswoman — a female who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
- throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
- throw shade — to make a public show of contempt
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- to windward — toward the wind; toward the point from which the wind blows.
- tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
- wait around — If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
- wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
- warmed over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- warmed-over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- warriorhood — The state of being a warrior.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
- weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- weatherford — a town in N Texas.
- wereleopard — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between leopard and human form.
- west jordan — a town in N central Utah.
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- widowmakers — Plural form of widowmaker.
- wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- wizard book — (publication) Hal Abelson, Gerald Sussman and Julie Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
- wokka board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument
- wonderbread — (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
- wonderlands — Plural form of wonderland.
- wood rabbit — a cottontail.
- woodcarving — the art or technique of carving objects by hand from wood or of carving decorations into wood.
- woodcrafter — a person who makes or carves wooden objects.
- word accent — word stress.
- word search — puzzle: words hidden in grid
- word square — a set of words such that when arranged one beneath another in the form of a square they read alike horizontally and vertically.
- work-harden — to toughen or strengthen (a metal) by cold-working or another mechanical process.
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- 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
- world-class — ranking among the world's best; outstanding: a world-class orchestra.
- world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
- worldbeater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.