11-letter words containing c, a, w, e
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- 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.
- to eat crow — If someone eats crow, they admit that they have been wrong and apologize, especially in situations where this is humiliating or embarrassing for them.
- tonic water — drink: carbonated water
- tower crane — a rotatable cantilever jib on top of a steelwork tower used on building sites where the operator needs to command a good view of the site
- toxic waste — waste material that can be harmful or deadly to living creatures and the environment
- trackwalker — a person employed to walk over and inspect a certain section of railroad track at intervals.
- train wreck — an accident in which a train or trains are severely damaged.
- tweetcation — a short break from posting on the Twitter website
- under watch — If someone is being kept under watch, they are being guarded or observed all the time.
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- vichy water — a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy, containing sodium bicarbonate, other alkaline salts, etc., used in the treatment of digestive disturbances, gout, etc.
- view camera — a camera equipped with a lens mount and film holder that can be raised or set at an angle, a bellows that can be additionally extended, and a back that has a ground glass for focusing, used especially for portraits and landscapes.
- view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
- wage packet — regular pay from an employer
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
- waistcoated — Wearing a waistcoat.
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wall socket — socket (def 2b).
- wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
- wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
- war cabinet — government wartime committee
- warm sector — the region of warmest air bounded by the cold and warm fronts of a cyclone.
- watchdogged — characteristic of a watchdog
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
- watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- water cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
- water witch — a person who claims the ability to detect water underground by means of a divining rod
- water-witch — to practice water witching; work as a water witch.
- watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
- watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
- watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
- watercourse — a stream of water, as a river or brook.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
- waterscapes — Plural form of waterscape.
- watt-second — a unit of energy equal to the energy of one watt acting for one second; the equivalent of one joule.
- weathercast — a forecast of weather conditions, especially on radio or television.
- weathercoat — Also, weathercoating. a weatherproof coating, applied especially to the exterior of a building.
- weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
- 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.
- welcome mat — a doormat, especially one with the word “welcome” printed on it.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- well-placed — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk