11-letter words containing e, r, w, i
- wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
- wire agency — a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.
- wire cutter — any of various devices designed to cut wire.
- wire-drawer — a machine for drawing metal into wire
- wire-guided — (of a missile) controlled by signals transmitted through fine wires uncoiled during the missile's flight
- wire-haired — having coarse, stiff, wirelike hair.
- wire-puller — a person or thing that pulls wires.
- wire-rimmed — (of spectacles) having thin wirelike metal frames
- wire-stitch — to stitch (the backs of gathered sections) by means of a machine that automatically forms staples from a continuous reel of wire.
- wirepulling — an act of pulling wires.
- wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
- wireworking — the use of wire to make functional or decorative works
- wisecracked — Simple past tense and past participle of wisecrack.
- wisecracker — a smart or facetious remark.
- wisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- witch alder — a shrub, Fothergilla gardenii, of the witch hazel family, native to the southeastern U.S., having spikes of white flowers that bloom before the leaves appear.
- with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- wither away — weaken and die
- witheringly — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- withershins — 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.
- witherspoon — John, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
- withstander — A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
- wolf spider — any of numerous ground spiders of the family Lycosidae, including the southern European tarantula, Lycosa taretula, that hunt their prey instead of using a web.
- wonder girl — an outstanding girl or woman
- wonderingly — In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
- woodchipper — a motor-driven machine that cuts wood into chips.
- wordishness — the use or manner of using words
- work permit — a document giving permission to work in a particular country
- working bee — a voluntary group doing a job for charity
- workmanlike — like or befitting a workman.
- world title — the winner's position in an international competition
- worldliness — of or relating to this world as contrasted with heaven, spiritual life, etc.; earthly; mundane.
- worrisomely — In a worrisome way.
- worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
- worshipless — lacking worship, not worshipped
- worshippers — Plural form of worshipper.
- wreckfishes — Plural form of wreckfish.
- wrenchingly — In a wrenching manner; with a sudden jerk or emotional shock.
- wriggle out — to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
- wrigglework — decorative engraving of a metal surface with repeated zigzags.
- wrist plate — a platelike part of a mechanism, oscillating in its own plane, to which links or rods are attached by pins.
- write cover — If an insurance company writes cover, it underwrites a risk or insures someone.
- yawl-rigged — rigged in the manner of a yawl.
- yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
- zwitterions — Plural form of zwitterion.