11-letter words containing b, w
- wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
- war cabinet — government wartime committee
- warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
- warrantable — capable of being warranted.
- warrantably — In a way that is justified; reasonably.
- warrensburg — a town in central Missouri.
- washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- wastebasket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
- water brash — heartburn (def 1).
- water table — the planar, underground surface beneath which earth materials, as soil or rock, are saturated with water.
- water-borne — A water-borne disease or infection is one that people can catch from infected water.
- wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
- wave number — the number of waves in one centimeter of light in a given wavelength; the reciprocal of the wavelength.
- waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Menophra abruptaria, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
- wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
- weatherable — able to withstand the effects of weather
- weaverbirds — Plural form of weaverbird.
- web address — Computers. URL (def 2).
- web browser — a person or thing that browses.
- web crawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- web du bois — William Edward Burghardt [burg-hahrd] /ˈbɜrg hɑrd/ (Show IPA), 1868–1963, U.S. educator and writer.
- web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
- web spinner — any of several slender insects, of the order Embioptera, that nest in colonies in silken webs spun with secretions from the enlarged front legs.
- webbed feet — bird, frog: toes joined by skin flaps
- weber river — a river in N Utah, flowing NW, joining the Ogden River and continuing into the Great Salt Lake. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- webmeisters — Plural form of webmeister.
- webmistress — a woman who designs and maintains a website.
- websquatter — A person or company that engages in websquatting.
- weekend bag — weekender (def 3).
- weighbridge — a platform scale that stands flush with a road and is used for weighing trucks, livestock, etc.
- weight belt — a belt worn to control a diver's buoyancy under water, on which slotted lead weights can be slipped according to the diver's body size and weight and having a quick-release buckle for emergency discarding.
- 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.
- well-beaten — formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
- well-bonded — secured by or consisting of bonds: bonded debt.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- west berlin — Irving, 1888–1989, U.S. songwriter.
- westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
- wet blanket — person: spoilsport
- wet-blanket — to extinguish (a fire) with a wet blanket.
- wettability — the condition of being wettable.
- wheat berry — the whole kernel of wheat, sometimes cracked or ground and used as a cereal or cooked food, or made into bread.
- wheat bread — a type of bread that consists of a mixture of enriched white flour and whole-wheat flour.
- wheel brace — a tool used to loosen or tighten the nuts holding a vehicle's wheel in place
- wheelbarrow — a frame or box for conveying a load, supported at one end by a wheel or wheels, and lifted and pushed at the other by two horizontal shafts.
- wheelie bin — refuse bin on wheels
- whereabouts — about where? where?
- 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
- whimberries — Plural form of whimberry.
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.