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11-letter words containing e, w

  • new wrinkle — innovation
  • new yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
  • new zealand — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • new-for-old — (of insurance) issued on the principle that claims will be based on the cost of replacing old damaged, destroyed, or lost items with brand new items
  • newburyport — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • news agency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
  • news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
  • news reader — (messaging)   A browser program which enables a user to read articles posted to Usenet. Articles may be stored in a local (or NFS-mounted) spool directory, or retrieved via NNTP. Examples are rn, GNUS, and nn.
  • news vendor — a person who sells newspapers or periodicals.
  • news weekly — a weekly newspaper or news magazine
  • newsagent's — a shop that sells newspapers and magazines
  • newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
  • newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
  • newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
  • newsletters — Plural form of newsletter.
  • newsmongers — Plural form of newsmonger.
  • newspersons — Plural form of newsperson.
  • newsvendors — Plural form of newsvendor.
  • newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
  • non-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • nonwindowed — Not windowed: without windows, windowless.
  • northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.
  • norway pine — red pine.
  • number work — simple arithmetic and similar mathematical procedures as used and studied at primary level
  • objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
  • office work — work normally carried out in an office, for example clerical or administrative work for an organization
  • offset well — An offset well is a wellbore which is close to a proposed well, and which provides information for planning the proposed well.
  • old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
  • olde worlde — Olde worlde is used to describe places and things that are or seem to be from an earlier period of history, and that look interesting or attractive.
  • olive brown — a dull yellowish-brown to yellowish-green colour
  • olive crown — (esp in ancient Greece and Rome) a garland of olive leaves awarded as a token of victory
  • ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
  • on a downer — If you are on a downer, you are feeling depressed and without hope.
  • on the town — a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
  • on the wane — If something is on the wane, it is becoming weaker or less.
  • on the wind — as near as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • on the wing — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
  • one-worlder — a person who supports or believes in any of various movements to establish a world government or a federation of nations stronger than any individual nation, for the purpose of promoting the common good.
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • openwindows — (operating system)   A graphical user interface server for Sun workstations which handles SunView, NeWS and X Window System protocols.
  • or whatever — You say or whatever to refer generally to something else of the same kind as the thing or things that you have just mentioned.
  • or wherever — You use or wherever to say that something might happen in a place other than the place you have mentioned, but that you are not able to say exactly where.
  • orangewoman — a female member of the Orangemen
  • other woman — a woman who is romantically or sexually involved with another woman's husband or lover, especially a woman who is having an affair with a married man.
  • other world — the world after death; the future world.
  • otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
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