11-letter words containing i, l, w
- unwillfully — deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- unwillingly — not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
- unwinkingly — in an unwinking manner
- unwittingly — inadvertent; unintentional; accidental: His insult, though unwitting, pained her.
- valley wind — a wind that ascends a mountain valley during the day.
- 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.
- violet wood — kingwood.
- virgin wool — wool not previously used in manufacture
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- 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 shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
- waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
- 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.
- waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
- wait-listed — placed on a waiting list for a flight leaving an airport
- wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
- 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
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
- walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
- walk on air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- 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.
- walkability — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
- walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
- wall lizard — a small mottled grey lizard, Lacerta muralis, of Europe, N Africa, and SW Asia: family Lacertidae
- wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
- 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.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
- 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
- warchalking — the practice of marking chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where local wireless internet connections may be obtained for free via a computer, usually without permission
- warlikeness — the state of being warlike
- warriorlike — Like a warrior.
- washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- water inlet — opening designed to let water in
- water slide — flume
- water snail — Archimedes' screw.
- waterslides — Plural form of waterslide.
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
- way of life — lifestyle
- weak-willed — having or showing a want of firmness of will; easily swayed.
- wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts