11-letter words containing e, w
- under-drawn — to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.
- under-weigh — under weigh, Nautical. in motion; under way.
- undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
- underviewer — a person who inspects a mine every day
- underweight — weighing less than is usual, required, or proper.
- underwiring — support provided by an underwire
- underworked — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- underworker — a person who underworks
- underwriter — a person or company that underwrites policies of insurance or carries on insurance as a business.
- unempowered — to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.
- unforeknown — not foreknown
- unix weenie — (jargon) (ITS) 1. A derogatory play on "Unix wizard", common among hackers who use Unix by necessity but would prefer alternatives. The implication is that although the person in question may consider mastery of Unix arcana to be a wizardly skill, the only real skill involved is the ability to tolerate (and the bad taste to wallow in) the incoherence and needless complexity that is alleged to infest many Unix programs. "This shell script tries to parse its arguments in 69 bletcherous ways. It must have been written by a real Unix weenie." 2. A derogatory term for anyone who engages in uncritical praise of Unix. Often appearing in the context "stupid Unix weenie". See Weenix, Unix conspiracy, weenie.
- unpathwayed — unpathed, pathless
- unrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- unrewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
- unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- unswallowed — not swallowed
- unsweetened — to make sweet, as by adding sugar.
- unterwalden — a canton in central Switzerland: divided into demicantons.
- unwandering — not wandering or roving, remaining in one place
- unwarranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- unweariable — incapable of wearying or being wearied; tireless
- unweariably — in an unweariable manner
- unweathered — not weathered; not changed by exposure to the weather
- unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
- unweetingly — in an ignorant manner
- unweighting — the action of minimizing the pressure of body weight on a ski before a turn by briefly bending down or straightening up
- unwelcoming — not friendly, hostile
- unwholesome — not wholesome; unhealthful; deleterious to health or physical or moral well-being: unwholesome food; unwholesome activities.
- unwithering — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- unwitnessed — lacking the signature of a witness: an unwitnessed legal document.
- unwoundable — incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed
- up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- upside down — with the upper part undermost.
- usenet news — Usenet
- valley wind — a wind that ascends a mountain valley during the day.
- vent window — (on an automobile) a small, pivoting window fitted into a main side window to provide draft-free ventilation.
- vichy water — a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy, containing sodium bicarbonate, other alkaline salts, etc., used in the treatment of digestive disturbances, gout, etc.
- 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.
- view halloa — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
- view halloo — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
- 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.
- violet wood — kingwood.
- vote-winner — a popular action that could secure votes for a person or party
- vowel point — any of a group of auxiliary symbols, as small lines and dots, placed above or below consonant symbols to indicate vowels in a writing system, as that of Hebrew or Arabic, in which vowels are otherwise not written.
- vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).