11-letter words containing d, i, w
- wheat ridge — a town in central Colorado, near Denver.
- when-issued — of, relating to, or noting an agreement to buy securities paid for at the time of delivery. Abbreviation: wi, w.i.
- whidah 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
- whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
- whirlybirds — Plural form of whirlybird.
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- whiskeyfied — (of a person, voice, etc) affected by excessive whisky drinking
- whist drive — a social gathering where whist is played; the winners of each hand move to different tables to play the losers of the previous hand
- whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- whit sunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
- white alder — sweet pepperbush.
- white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
- white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
- white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
- white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
- white goods — household appliances
- white sound — white noise.
- white-bread — pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
- white-faced — having a white or pale face.
- white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- whitewashed — Simple past tense and past participle of whitewash.
- whitherward — toward what place; in what direction.
- whitsuntide — the week beginning with Whitsunday, especially the first three days of this week.
- whittuesday — the day following Whitmonday.
- whodunnitry — the style or genre of novels, plays, etc concerned with crime
- 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
- widdershins — in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster.
- wide-screen — of, noting, or pertaining to motion pictures projected on a screen having greater width than height, usually in a ratio of 1 to 2.5.
- widechapped — open-mouthed
- widemouthed — (of a person, object, body of water, etc.) having a mouth that is wide: a widemouthed river.
- widow woman — a widow.
- widowerhood — The state or period of being a widower.
- widowmakers — Plural form of widowmaker.
- wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
- wild celery — tape grass.
- wild fennel — any of several annual herbs of the genus Nigella, having dissected leaves and showy blue or white flowers.
- wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
- wild ginger — any of various plants belonging to the genus Asarum, of the birthwort family, especially A. canadense, a woodland plant of eastern North America, having two heart-shaped leaves, a solitary reddish-brown flower, and a pungent rhizome.
- wild indigo — any of several plants belonging to the genus Baptisia, of the legume family, especially B. tinctoria, having yellow flowers.
- wild madder — madder1 (defs 1, 2).
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
- wild radish — another name for white charlock
- wild rubber — rubber obtained from trees growing wild.
- wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
- wild weasel — a nickname given various U.S. military aircraft fitted with radar-detection and jamming equipment and designed to suppress enemy air defenses with missiles that home on radar emissions.
- wild-headed — given to wild or exorbitant ideas.
- wildcatters — Plural form of wildcatter.
- wildcrafter — One who takes part in wildcraft.