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11-letter words containing i, l, w

  • whistle pig — a woodchuck.
  • whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
  • whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • whistlingly — with a whistle; in a whistling manner
  • white alder — sweet pepperbush.
  • white alert — (in military or civilian defense) an all-clear signal, directive, etc., indicating that the danger of air raid no longer exists.
  • white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • white light — light perceived by the eye as having the same color as sunlight at noon.
  • white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • white metal — any of various light-colored alloys, as Babbitt metal or Britannia metal.
  • white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
  • white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
  • white whale — beluga (def 2).
  • white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
  • whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
  • whitefeller — (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.
  • whitleather — white leather.
  • whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
  • whitlowwort — any of several small, tufted plants belonging to the genus Paronychia, of the pink family, native to temperate and warm regions, having opposite or whorled leaves and tiny, greenish flowers.
  • whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
  • whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
  • wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
  • wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
  • wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
  • wiffle ball — a hollow plastic baseball, one side of which is perforated to enable the pitching of various types of curveball: used in an informal variation of baseball
  • wiggle nail — a fastener consisting of a piece of corrugated sheet steel with one wavy edge sharpened, for uniting two pieces of wood, as in a miter joint.
  • wiggle room — room to maneuver; latitude.
  • wiggle-tail — wriggler (def 2).
  • wilberforce — William, 1759–1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.
  • wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
  • wild celery — tape grass.
  • wild fennel — any of several annual herbs of the genus Nigella, having dissected leaves and showy blue or white flowers.
  • wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
  • wild ginger — any of various plants belonging to the genus Asarum, of the birthwort family, especially A. canadense, a woodland plant of eastern North America, having two heart-shaped leaves, a solitary reddish-brown flower, and a pungent rhizome.
  • wild indigo — any of several plants belonging to the genus Baptisia, of the legume family, especially B. tinctoria, having yellow flowers.
  • wild madder — madder1 (defs 1, 2).
  • wild orange — laurel cherry.
  • wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
  • wild radish — another name for white charlock
  • wild rubber — rubber obtained from trees growing wild.
  • wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
  • wild weasel — a nickname given various U.S. military aircraft fitted with radar-detection and jamming equipment and designed to suppress enemy air defenses with missiles that home on radar emissions.
  • wild-headed — given to wild or exorbitant ideas.
  • wildcatters — Plural form of wildcatter.
  • wildcrafter — One who takes part in wildcraft.
  • wildebeests — Plural form of wildebeest.
  • wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
  • wildfowling — Present participle of wildfowl.
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