11-letter words containing e, w
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
- ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
- ground wire — a lead from an electric apparatus to the earth or to a ground connection.
- groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
- 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.
- growth area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
- growth cone — a flattened area at the end of a growing axon or dendrite, having radiating filopodia and lemellopodia that function as guides for the outgrowth of embryonic nerve fibers.
- growth rate — increase per unit
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- 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.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- hammer away — If you hammer away at a task or activity, you work at it constantly and with great energy.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hand-worker — a person who does handwork
- 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
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- hardwareman — (obsolete) An ironmonger.
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- harrow hell — to enter hell and rescue the righteous
- hawaii time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- hawes water — a lake in NW England, in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply; extended by damming from 4 km (2.5 miles) to 6 km (4 miles)
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- head-waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heart-water — a tick-borne disease of cattle, sheep, and goats characterized by fluid accumulation in the pericardial sac. It is caused by the organism Rickettsia ruminantium
- heart-whole — not in love.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- heavyweight — heavy in weight.
- heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- heir-at-law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
- hence with! — away with!
- henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
- hepplewhite — George, died 1786, English furniture designer and cabinetmaker.
- here we are — You say 'here we are' when you have just found something that you have been looking for.