11-letter words containing c, e, l, w
- scape wheel — escape wheel.
- screech owl — any of numerous small American owls of the genus Otus, having hornlike tufts of feathers, as O. asio, of eastern North America.
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
- slow cooker — an electric cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid for cooking meats, casseroles, etc., for several hours at relatively low temperatures, usually around 200° F (93.3° C).
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
- tower block — a high-rise building.
- trackwalker — a person employed to walk over and inspect a certain section of railroad track at intervals.
- trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- twelve-inch — a phonograph record twelve inches in diameter, especially one with two or more remixes of the same song.
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- unwelcoming — not friendly, hostile
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- 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.
- 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.
- watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
- watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
- watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
- 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
- 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.
- welcomeness — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well-chosen — chosen with care, as for suitability or preciseness: He entered at a well-chosen moment.
- well-cooked — having been cooked with skill so as to be pleasant to eat
- well-copied — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- 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.
- well-priced — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
- weltschmerz — sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life; sentimental pessimism.
- welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
- whale watch — trip to observe sea mammals
- whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
- wheel brace — a tool used to loosen or tighten the nuts holding a vehicle's wheel in place
- wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.