11-letter words containing e, b, a
- waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Menophra abruptaria, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
- wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
- weatherable — able to withstand the effects of weather
- weaverbirds — Plural form of weaverbird.
- web address — Computers. URL (def 2).
- web crawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- websquatter — A person or company that engages in websquatting.
- weekend bag — weekender (def 3).
- weldability — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- well-beaten — formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- wet blanket — person: spoilsport
- wet-blanket — to extinguish (a fire) with a wet blanket.
- wettability — the condition of being wettable.
- wheat berry — the whole kernel of wheat, sometimes cracked or ground and used as a cereal or cooked food, or made into bread.
- wheat bread — a type of bread that consists of a mixture of enriched white flour and whole-wheat flour.
- wheel brace — a tool used to loosen or tighten the nuts holding a vehicle's wheel in place
- wheelbarrow — a frame or box for conveying a load, supported at one end by a wheel or wheels, and lifted and pushed at the other by two horizontal shafts.
- whereabouts — about where? where?
- whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
- white bacon — bacon (def 2).
- white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
- white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
- white-bread — pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
- wife-beater — a person who hits his or her wife
- wiffle ball — a hollow plastic baseball, one side of which is perforated to enable the pitching of various types of curveball: used in an informal variation of baseball
- windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- windbreaker — A wind -resistant jacket with a close-fitting neck, waistband, and cuffs.
- winged bean — a tropical Asian vine, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, of the legume family, of which the pods, seeds, leaves, and flowers are edible and nutritious.
- wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
- wonderbread — (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
- woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
- work basket — a basket for holding sewing equipment
- workbaskets — Plural form of workbasket.
- worldbeater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- worry beads — a string of beads manipulated to relieve worry and tension.
- worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
- xenoblastic — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
- xenophobiac — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
- xenophobian — (rare) A xenophobe; one who is xenophobic.
- yankee bond — a bond issued by a foreign corporation or country designed for sale in the U.S.
- yerba buena — an island in San Francisco Bay between Oakland and San Francisco, California: a 500 feet (152 meters) two-story tunnel across this island connects the two spans of the San Francisco–Oakland bridge.
- you betcha! — absolutely, certainly
- zebra finch — a small Australian waxbill, Poephila guttata, that has black-and-white barred plumage and a chestnut ear patch: popular as a cage bird.
- zebra label — a label with a coded series of short, black lines affixed to each book in a library and to each borrower's card for purposes of identification and prevention of theft.
- zebra plant — any of several plants having conspicuously striped or veined foliage, as Calathea zebrina, of Brazil.
- zombie bank — a bank that has liabilities exceeding its assets but continues to operate through government support: These zombie banks are unable or unwilling to lend out money.