11-letter words containing e, r, w, i
- prairie owl — burrowing owl.
- pre-warning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- pre-written — a past participle of write.
- private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- prizewinner — a person or thing that wins a prize or is deserving of a prize.
- prizeworthy — deserving or qualified for a prize: a prizeworthy performance.
- pupil power — the influence of or the increased status of the beliefs or actions of pupils
- purple wire — (jargon, hardware) Wire installed by IBM Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging. These are called "purple wires" even when (as is frequently the case) they are yellow. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, and red wire.
- racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
- radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- rave review — extremely favourable critique
- rear window — the window at the back of a motor vehicle
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
- reinterview — to interview or question again
- relief work — the work carried out by charities providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- remand wing — a special area within a prison for prisoners who are awaiting trial
- rent review — a provision in the lease of a business premise whereby the amount of the rent being paid is reconsidered at stated intervals, for example every three or five years
- repairwoman — a woman whose occupation is the making of repairs, readjustments, etc.
- review body — an organization sponsored by the government to make independent recommendations
- review copy — a copy of a book sent by a publisher to a journal, newspaper, etc, to enable it to be reviewed
- rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
- rice weevil — a brown weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, that infests, breeds in, and feeds on stored grains, especially rice.
- right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
- riverworthy — (of a boat) able to cross or sail a river safely
- rose weevil — Fuller rose beetle.
- rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
- rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scissorwise — in a movement or position which imitates scissors
- screenwrite — (language) A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- screwdriver — a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that fits into the slotted head of a screw.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- showeriness — the state or quality of being showery
- sidewheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- sign writer — someone whose job is to produce signs for businesses