11-letter words containing e, w
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- vowel sound — spoken language: open sound
- vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
- waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
- waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
- waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
- wage earner — a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.
- wage freeze — earnings fixed at current amount
- wage packet — regular pay from an employer
- wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- waggishness — Waggish behaviour.
- wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
- waistcoated — Wearing a waistcoat.
- wait-listed — placed on a waiting list for a flight leaving an airport
- waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
- wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
- wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard
- wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- wakey-wakey — used for telling someone that they should wake up or should pay attention
- waldemar ii — known as Waldemar the Victorious. 1170–1241, king of Denmark (1202–41); son of Waldemar I. He extended the Danish empire, conquering much of Estonia (1219)
- waldemar iv — surnamed Atterdag. ?1320–75, king of Denmark (1340–75), who reunited the Danish territories but was defeated (1368) by a coalition of his Baltic neighbours
- walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
- waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
- walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
- wall pepper — a small Eurasian crassulaceous plant, Sedum acre, having creeping stems, yellow flowers, and acrid-tasting leaves
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wall socket — socket (def 2b).
- wall street — a street in New York City, in S Manhattan: the major financial center of the U.S.
- wall system — a modular system of shelves, some of which may be enclosed by doors, either mounted on a wall or arranged in freestanding units, for holding books, bric-a-brac, etc., and sometimes including such features as a drop-leaf desk or specially designed storage space, as to accommodate records or electronic equipment.
- wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
- wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
- wallenstein — Also, Waldstein. Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von [ahl-brekht ven-tsuh l oi-zey-bee-oo s fuh n] /ˈɑl brɛxt ˈvɛn tsəl ɔɪˈzeɪ biˌʊs fən/ (Show IPA), Duke of Friedland [freed-land,, -luh nd;; German freet-lahnt] /ˈfridˌlænd,, -lənd;; German ˈfritˌlɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1583–1634, Austrian general in the Thirty Years' War, born in Bohemia.
- wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
- wallpapered — Simple past tense and past participle of wallpaper.
- walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
- wand reader — wand (def 6).
- wand-reader — a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
- wanted list — a list of people being searched for by the police in connection with a crime that has been committed
- war cabinet — government wartime committee
- ward heeler — a minor politician who canvasses voters and does other chores for a political machine or party boss.
- ward sister — a senior nurse in charge of a ward
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.