11-letter words containing e, a, r, w
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- game warden — a public official who enforces game laws.
- garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
- getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- grandnephew — a son of one's nephew or niece.
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- growth area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
- growth rate — increase per unit
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- hammer away — If you hammer away at a task or activity, you work at it constantly and with great energy.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- hardwareman — (obsolete) An ironmonger.
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- harrow hell — to enter hell and rescue the righteous
- hawes water — a lake in NW England, in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply; extended by damming from 4 km (2.5 miles) to 6 km (4 miles)
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- head-waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heart-water — a tick-borne disease of cattle, sheep, and goats characterized by fluid accumulation in the pericardial sac. It is caused by the organism Rickettsia ruminantium
- heart-whole — not in love.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.