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11-letter words containing e, r, w, i

  • wheelwright — John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
  • wherewithal — that with which to do something; means or supplies for the purpose or need, especially money: the wherewithal to pay my rent.
  • whichsoever — Whichever.
  • whiffletree — a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces of a harness are fastened for pulling a cart, carriage, plow, etc.
  • whigmaleery — whigmaleerie.
  • whimberries — Plural form of whimberry.
  • whimperings — Plural form of whimpering.
  • whippletree — whiffletree.
  • whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
  • whiskerless — Without whiskers.
  • whisperings — Plural form of whispering.
  • 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
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • white alder — sweet pepperbush.
  • white alert — (in military or civilian defense) an all-clear signal, directive, etc., indicating that the danger of air raid no longer exists.
  • white birch — the European birch, Betula pendula, yielding a hard wood.
  • white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
  • white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
  • 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 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 flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • white friar — a Carmelite friar: so called from the distinctive white cloak worn by the order.
  • white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
  • white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
  • white meter — an electricity meter used to record the consumption of off-peak electricity
  • white paper — paper bleached white.
  • white perch — a small game fish, Morone americana, greenish-gray above and silvery below, inhabiting streams along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • white river — a river flowing SE from NW Arkansas into the Mississippi River. 690 miles (1110 km) long.
  • white shark — great white shark.
  • white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
  • white trash — a member of the class of poor whites, especially in the southern U.S.
  • white water — fast-moving foamy water
  • white-bread — pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
  • white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
  • whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
  • whitefeller — (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.
  • whitefriars — a district in central London, England.
  • whiteprints — Plural form of whiteprint.
  • whitethorns — Plural form of whitethorn.
  • whitethroat — any of several small songbirds having a throat that is white, especially an Old World warbler, Sylvia communis.
  • whitewasher — One who, or that which, whitewashes.
  • whitewaters — a town in SE Wisconsin.
  • whitherward — toward what place; in what direction.
  • whitleather — white leather.
  • whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
  • wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
  • 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.
  • widowerhood — The state or period of being a widower.
  • widowmakers — Plural form of widowmaker.
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