11-letter words containing e, w, r
- vietnam war — a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the U.S., South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam.
- view camera — a camera equipped with a lens mount and film holder that can be raised or set at an angle, a bellows that can be additionally extended, and a back that has a ground glass for focusing, used especially for portraits and landscapes.
- view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
- vine grower — a person who cultivates grapevines
- 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.
- vote-winner — a popular action that could secure votes for a person or party
- vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).
- vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
- waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
- waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
- wage earner — a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.
- wage freeze — earnings fixed at current amount
- wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard
- waldemar ii — known as Waldemar the Victorious. 1170–1241, king of Denmark (1202–41); son of Waldemar I. He extended the Danish empire, conquering much of Estonia (1219)
- waldemar iv — surnamed Atterdag. ?1320–75, king of Denmark (1340–75), who reunited the Danish territories but was defeated (1368) by a coalition of his Baltic neighbours
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
- waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
- wall pepper — a small Eurasian crassulaceous plant, Sedum acre, having creeping stems, yellow flowers, and acrid-tasting leaves
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wall street — a street in New York City, in S Manhattan: the major financial center of the U.S.
- wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
- wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
- wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
- wallpapered — Simple past tense and past participle of wallpaper.
- wand reader — wand (def 6).
- wand-reader — a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- 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.
- war cabinet — government wartime committee
- ward heeler — a minor politician who canvasses voters and does other chores for a political machine or party boss.
- ward sister — a senior nurse in charge of a ward
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- warlikeness — the state of being warlike
- warm sector — the region of warmest air bounded by the cold and warm fronts of a cyclone.
- warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
- warmed over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- warmed-over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- warmhearted — having or showing sympathy, affection, kindness, cordiality, etc.: a warm-hearted welcome.
- warmongerer — Misspelling of warmonger.
- warrantable — capable of being warranted.
- warrantless — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- warrensburg — a town in central Missouri.
- warriorlike — Like a warrior.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.