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11-letter words containing e, d, g, w

  • 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.
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
  • handweaving — the art or technique of weaving on a handloom.
  • handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
  • hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
  • kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
  • knowledging — Present participle of knowledge.
  • lead weight — a weight made of lead
  • long-winded — talking or writing at tedious length: long-winded after-dinner speakers.
  • mig welding — metal inert gas welding: a method of welding in which the filler metal wire supplies the electric current to maintain the arc, which is shielded from the access of air by an inert gas, usually argon
  • new england — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
  • new granada — a former Spanish viceroyalty in NW South America, comprising the present republics of Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama.
  • new kingdom — a period of Egyptian history, extending from the 18th to the 20th dynasty (?1570–?1080 bc)
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • overdrawing — Present participle of overdraw.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • puddingwife — a bluish and bronze wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, of the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to Brazil.
  • red dogwood — a Eurasian dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, having greenish-white flowers and dark-red branches.
  • remand wing — a special area within a prison for prisoners who are awaiting trial
  • rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • single-wide — a mobile home used as a permanent residence.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • sponge down — to wipe clean with a damp sponge or cloth
  • stemwinding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • tig welding — tungsten-electrode inert gas welding: a method of welding in which the arc is maintained by a tungsten electrode and shielded from the access of air by an inert gas
  • under-weigh — under weigh, Nautical. in motion; under way.
  • undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
  • underweight — weighing less than is usual, required, or proper.
  • underwiring — support provided by an underwire
  • unrewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
  • unwandering — not wandering or roving, remaining in one place
  • unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
  • vinegarweed — a plant, Trichostema lanceolatum, of the mint family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having clusters of blue flowers with long, protruding filaments and growing in dry, sandy soil.
  • wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
  • waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
  • wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
  • wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
  • watchdogged — characteristic of a watchdog
  • waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
  • weak ending — a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that would not be stressed in natural utterance, as a preposition, the object of which is carried over to the next line.
  • wedding day — the day of a wedding.
  • wedge issue — an issue that divides or causes conflict in an otherwise unified group: Abortion is a wedge issue for the Republican Party.
  • weekend bag — weekender (def 3).
  • weekendings — weekends during which one goes away from home
  • weighbridge — a platform scale that stands flush with a road and is used for weighing trucks, livestock, etc.
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