11-letter words containing e, w
- otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
- otherworldy — With a quality unlike those normal to everyday life, or outside typical human experience.
- otter shrew — a chiefly aquatic insectivore, Potamogale velox, of western Africa, that resembles an otter, having sleek, brown fur and a flattened tail.
- otter trawl — a trawl net equipped with otter boards.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
- outweighing — Present participle of outweigh.
- over-sewing — to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, especially closely, so as to cover the edge or make a firm seam.
- overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
- overcrowded — filled to excess; packed.
- overdrawing — Present participle of overdraw.
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overforward — too familiar
- oversweeten — to sweeten too much
- overswollen — too swollen
- overthrower — someone or somethng that overthrows another
- overweather — to expose too long to harsh weather
- overweening — presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud: a brash, insolent, overweening fellow.
- overwhelmed — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- overwrestle — to overpower by wrestling
- overwritten — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
- overwrought — extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to become overwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.
- oxbow chest — a chest of drawers having a front convex at the sides and concave in the center without vertical divisions.
- oyster stew — a stew containing oysters
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
- palmer worm — the hairy black and white caterpillar of the goldtail moth
- paper towel — absorbent kitchen tissue
- paperweight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
- parian ware — an English and American hardpaste porcelain ware introduced c1850, having a white, hard surface and used mainly for biscuit figures.
- passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- passed pawn — a pawn with no opposing pawn either on an adjacent file or on its own file.
- pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
- peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
- pedal power — use of a cycle
- peely-wally — off colour; pale and ill-looking
- peer review — evaluation of a person's work or performance by a group of people in the same occupation, profession, or industry.
- pennine way — a long-distance footpath extending from Edale, Derbyshire, for 402 km (250 miles) to Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders
- pennyweight — (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). Abbreviation: dwt, pwt.
- personpower — the power or influence of a person
- petah tiqwa — city in WC Israel: pop. 153,000
- pieceworker — someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- pillow lace — bobbin lace.
- pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
- pinwheeling — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- pipe wrench — a tool having two toothed jaws, one fixed and the other free to grip pipes and other tubular objects when the tool is turned in one direction only.
- plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.