11-letter words containing d, e, w
- bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
- buckle down — If you buckle down to something, you start working seriously at it.
- bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
- cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
- cadwallader — a male given name.
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- capped pawn — a pawn that has been singled out or marked by a strong player as the one with which he or she intends to effect checkmate in giving a weaker opponent odds.
- cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
- caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
- change down — When you change down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- comedy show — a funny programme on TV or radio
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- condo owner — A condo owner is the owner of a condominium.
- copywronged — copybroke
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- corkscrewed — Simple past tense and past participle of corkscrew.
- counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
- counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- crowded out — full to capacity; full to bursting
- crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
- crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- crowstepped — (of a gable) having crow steps
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dawn raider — a person or company that mounts a dawn raid
- dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.
- deal a blow — If an event deals a blow to something or someone, it causes them great difficulties or makes failure more likely.
- deflowering — Present participle of deflower.
- deganawidah — ("The Peacemaker") flourished 1550–1600, Huron prophet, cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- deuces wild — a variety or method of playing certain poker and other games in which a deuce represents any suit or denomination that the holder chooses: We're playing five-card stud, deuces wild.
- dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
- diddle with — Informal. to toy; fool (usually followed by with): The kids have been diddling with the controls on the television set again.
- die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
- dietary law — law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food.
- digger wasp — any of numerous solitary wasps of the family Sphecidae, which excavate nests in soil, wood, etc., and provision them with prey paralyzed by stinging.
- dinnerwares — china, glasses, and silver used for table service.
- dirty power — Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers. Spikes, drop-outs, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and severity (these are collectively known as power hits).
- disavowable — capable of being disavowed
- disbowelled — disembowelled
- disembowels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembowel.
- disempowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disempower.