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11-letter words containing b, w

  • whirlybirds — Plural form of whirlybird.
  • whisk broom — a small, short-handled broom used chiefly to brush clothes.
  • whiskbrooms — Plural form of whiskbroom.
  • whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
  • whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
  • white bacon — bacon (def 2).
  • white birch — the European birch, Betula pendula, yielding a hard wood.
  • 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.
  • white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
  • whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
  • whiteboyism — the principles or conduct of the Whiteboys
  • whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
  • whole blood — blood directly from the body, from which none of the components have been removed, used in transfusions.
  • 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
  • wilberforce — William, 1759–1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.
  • wild rubber — rubber obtained from trees growing wild.
  • wildebeests — Plural form of wildebeest.
  • wilkinsburg — a borough in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
  • willow herb — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Epilobium, of the evening primrose family, having terminal clusters of purplish or white flowers.
  • willowbrook — a city in SW California.
  • wind-broken — having the breathing impaired; affected with heaves.
  • 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.
  • wine bucket — A wine bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of wine in and keep the wine cool.
  • wineberries — Plural form of wineberry.
  • 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
  • winterberry — any of several North American hollies of the genus Ilex, having red berries that are persistent through the winter.
  • 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.
  • witness box — witness stand.
  • witness-box — witness stand.
  • 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.
  • wobble pump — an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.
  • wokka board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument
  • women's lib — women's liberation: rights
  • wonderberry — the black, edible fruit of an improved garden variety of the black nightshade.
  • wonderbread — (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
  • wood betony — the betony, Stachys officinalis.
  • wood rabbit — a cottontail.
  • woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
  • work basket — a basket for holding sewing equipment
  • workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  • workbaskets — Plural form of workbasket.
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