11-letter words containing d, a, g, w
- handwriting — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
- handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.
- kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
- law-abiding — obeying or keeping the law; obedient to law: law-abiding citizens.
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- new england — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
- new granada — a former Spanish viceroyalty in NW South America, comprising the present republics of Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama.
- new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
- overdrawing — Present participle of overdraw.
- paddy wagon — Informal. patrol wagon.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- remand wing — a special area within a prison for prisoners who are awaiting trial
- rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
- sandwiching — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
- sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
- sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- sword grass — any of various grasses or plants having swordlike or sharp leaves, as the sword lily.
- unrewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
- unwandering — not wandering or roving, remaining in one place
- unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
- vinegarweed — a plant, Trichostema lanceolatum, of the mint family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having clusters of blue flowers with long, protruding filaments and growing in dry, sandy soil.
- wading bird — wader (def 2).
- wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
- wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
- watch guard — a short chain, cord, or ribbon for securing a watch when worn on the person.
- watchdogged — characteristic of a watchdog
- waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
- weak ending — a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that would not be stressed in natural utterance, as a preposition, the object of which is carried over to the next line.
- wedding day — the day of a wedding.
- weekend bag — weekender (def 3).
- well argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well-argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well-geared — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.
- wheat ridge — a town in central Colorado, near Denver.
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- windjamming — Excessive talking; loquaciousness.