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11-letter words containing i, r, a, w

  • dawn raider — a person or company that mounts a dawn raid
  • die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • dietary law — law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food.
  • digger wasp — any of numerous solitary wasps of the family Sphecidae, which excavate nests in soil, wood, etc., and provision them with prey paralyzed by stinging.
  • dinnerwares — china, glasses, and silver used for table service.
  • disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
  • dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
  • disk harrow — a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.
  • downgrading — Present participle of downgrade.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • drainageway — a conduit, ditch, or the like, for draining water from an area.
  • draw a line — If you draw a line between two things, you make a distinction between them.
  • draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
  • drawability — the degree to which a metal can be drawn.
  • drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
  • drawing pen — a pen with a fine nib used for drawing
  • drawing pin — a thumbtack.
  • drawstrings — Plural form of drawstring.
  • dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
  • dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
  • eco-warrior — An eco-warrior is someone who spends a lot of time working actively for environmental causes.
  • ecowarriors — Plural form of ecowarrior.
  • edward viii — (Duke of Windsor) 1894–1972, king of Great Britain 1936: abdicated (son of George V; brother of George VI).
  • enwrappings — any hidden things, both tangible and intangible
  • eveningwear — Clothes suitable for a formal occasion in the evening.
  • fairweather — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 15,292 feet (4660 meters).
  • faithworthy — worthy of faith, trustworthy
  • fiesta ware — molded, opaque-glazed earthenware produced in a wide range of colors from 1936 to 1969.
  • finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
  • finger wave — a wave set by impressing the fingers into hair dampened by lotion or water.
  • fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
  • firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
  • first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
  • fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
  • fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
  • forewarning — to warn in advance.
  • forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
  • fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
  • grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
  • grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
  • grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
  • gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
  • guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
  • hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
  • hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
  • handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
  • handwriting — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
  • handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
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