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11-letter words containing b, i, w, a

  • 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
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweet basil — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • unweariable — incapable of wearying or being wearied; tireless
  • unweariably — in an unweariable manner
  • wading bird — wader (def 2).
  • walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
  • walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
  • walkability — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
  • walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
  • wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
  • war cabinet — government wartime committee
  • washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
  • wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
  • wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
  • weaverbirds — Plural form of weaverbird.
  • weldability — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
  • wettability — the condition of being wettable.
  • whidah bird — any of various predominantly black African weaverbirds of the genus Vidua and related genera, the males of which grow very long tail feathers in the breeding season
  • whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
  • whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
  • white bacon — bacon (def 2).
  • white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
  • white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
  • white-bread — pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
  • whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
  • whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
  • whydah bird — any of various predominantly black African weaverbirds of the genus Vidua and related genera, the males of which grow very long tail feathers in the breeding season
  • wife-beater — a person who hits his or her wife
  • wiffle ball — a hollow plastic baseball, one side of which is perforated to enable the pitching of various types of curveball: used in an informal variation of baseball
  • windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
  • windbreaker — A wind -resistant jacket with a close-fitting neck, waistband, and cuffs.
  • window back — woodwork, especially paneling, beneath the stool of a window.
  • winged bean — a tropical Asian vine, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, of the legume family, of which the pods, seeds, leaves, and flowers are edible and nutritious.
  • winnability — a capacity for winning or being won
  • wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
  • with a bang — begin, end: in a dramatic way
  • with a bump — If someone comes down to earth with a bump, they suddenly start recognizing unpleasant facts after a period of time when they have not been doing this.
  • 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.
  • wood rabbit — a cottontail.
  • workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  • worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
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