11-letter words containing i, r, a, w
- hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- head-waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- heir-at-law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
- hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- in the wars — (esp of a child) hurt or knocked about, esp as a result of quarrelling and fighting
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- inner woman — a woman's mind, soul, or nature
- interweaved — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- interweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interweave.
- inward dive — a dive in which the athlete stands with back to the water, takes off, and rotates toward the board.
- jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.
- jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
- kinyarwanda — Ruanda (def 2).
- kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
- kwashiorkor — a malnutrition disease, chiefly of children, caused by severe protein and vitamin deficiency and characterized by retarded growth, changes in pigmentation, potbelly, and anemia.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- large white — a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
- lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
- limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
- low-calorie — containing relatively fewer calories than comparable foods, diets, etc
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- martial law — the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
- meadow bird — the bobolink.
- mexican war — the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846–48.
- microwaving — Present participle of microwave.
- mineral wax — ozocerite.
- mopani worm — an edible caterpillar that feeds on mopani leaves
- new britain — the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean. About 14,600 sq. mi. (37,814 sq. km). Capital: Rabaul.
- new georgia — a group of islands in the Solomon Islands.
- new ireland — an island in the Bismarck Archipelago, in the W central Pacific Ocean NE of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. About 3800 sq. mi. (9800 sq. km).
- new realism — neorealism.
- nicht wahr? — isn't that so?
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- norway pine — red pine.