11-letter words containing e, w
- quickwitted — Alternative spelling of quick-witted.
- quoteworthy — quotable.
- 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.
- red dogwood — a Eurasian dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, having greenish-white flowers and dark-red branches.
- red seaweed — any marine red alga, especially one of the genus Polysiphonia, having a reddish, much branched thallus.
- 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
- renewedness — the quality or state of being renewed or having been renewed
- 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.
- resort town — a holiday town
- 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
- robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
- roh tae woo — born 1932, president of South Korea 1988–93.
- rose grower — a person who grows rose plants
- rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
- rose weevil — Fuller rose beetle.
- rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
- round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
- rule of law — the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law.
- rupturewort — a plant, Herniaria glabra, of the pink family
- rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- 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.
- sash weight — a counterweight to a vertically sliding window sash.
- satin weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are interlaced with the warp at widely separated intervals, producing the effect of an unbroken surface.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- saw-toothed — having pointing resembling the edge of a saw.
- scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
- scape wheel — escape wheel.
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.