11-letter words containing a, w
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- growth area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
- growth rate — increase per unit
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- hammer away — If you hammer away at a task or activity, you work at it constantly and with great energy.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hand waving — insubstantial words, arguments, gestures, or actions used in an attempt to explain or persuade.
- hand-waving — insubstantial words, arguments, gestures, or actions used in an attempt to explain or persuade.
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handweaving — the art or technique of weaving on a handloom.
- handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
- handwriting — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
- hardwareman — (obsolete) An ironmonger.
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- harrow hell — to enter hell and rescue the righteous
- harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hash browns — fried potato cake
- hawaii time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- hawes water — a lake in NW England, in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply; extended by damming from 4 km (2.5 miles) to 6 km (4 miles)
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).