11-letter words containing d, o, a, n
- valediction — an act of bidding farewell or taking leave.
- vandemonian — a native or inhabitant of the former Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
- vanilla pod — the seed pod of the vanilla plant, used in cooking
- vascongadas — Basque Country
- venditation — a boastful or ostentatious display
- video nasty — A video nasty is an extremely violent or frightening film which people can only buy on video.
- videotaping — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
- vindication — the act of vindicating.
- vindicatory — tending or serving to vindicate.
- wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
- wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
- wait around — If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
- walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- watt-second — a unit of energy equal to the energy of one watt acting for one second; the equivalent of one joule.
- west jordan — a town in N central Utah.
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- widow woman — a widow.
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- willow wand — a slender stick or rod made of willow used especially in magic or divination
- windom peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,082 feet (4292 meters).
- window back — woodwork, especially paneling, beneath the stool of a window.
- window sash — the frame holding the pane of a window.
- window seat — a seat built beneath the sill of a recessed or other window.
- windowpanes — Plural form of windowpane.
- wonderbread — (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
- wonderlands — Plural form of wonderland.
- woodcarving — the art or technique of carving objects by hand from wood or of carving decorations into wood.
- word accent — word stress.
- work-harden — to toughen or strengthen (a metal) by cold-working or another mechanical process.
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- wraparounds — Plural form of wraparound.
- wrongheaded — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
- x's and o's — the basic elements of a specified field of work, knowledge, etc.; often, specif., the plays and strategies used in a particular sport
- x-radiation — exposure to x-rays.
- xenodochial — (rare) Friendly to strangers.
- yankee bond — a bond issued by a foreign corporation or country designed for sale in the U.S.
- year-around — year-round.
- yorba linda — a city in SW California.
- young adult — a teenager (used especially by publishers and librarians).
- zhoukoudian — the site of fossil-bearing caves near Peking, China, dating from the middle Pleistocene, in one of which were found the physical remains of Peking man together with stone tools and evidence of fire use.
- ziprasidone — An antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of schizophrenia etc.