11-letter words containing i, t, w, o, n
- whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- white bacon — bacon (def 2).
- white noise — Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds.
- white sound — white noise.
- whitethorns — Plural form of whitethorn.
- whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
- whodunnitry — the style or genre of novels, plays, etc concerned with crime
- win through — succeed despite obstacles
- window seat — a seat built beneath the sill of a recessed or other window.
- windowlight — windowpane (def 1).
- windsor tie — a wide, soft necktie of black silk, tied at the neck in a loose bow.
- wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
- wing-footed — having winged feet.
- winter moth — a brown geometrid moth, Operophtera brumata, of which the male is often seen against lighted windows in winter, the female being wingless
- winter oats — oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter rose — Christmas rose.
- witenagemot — the assembly of the witan; the national council attended by the king, aldermen, bishops, and nobles.
- with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- witherspoon — John, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
- withholding — to hold back; restrain or check.
- withindoors — into or inside the house.
- witness box — witness stand.
- witness-box — witness stand.
- woodturning — The action of shaping wood with a lathe.
- workstation — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- world point — (in relativity) a point in space-time, specified by three space coordinates and a time coordinate. Compare event (def 4).
- worthington — a town in central Ohio.
- wrist joint — articulation between arm and hand
- wrong thing — (jargon) A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalised; always emphasised in speech as if capitalised. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where "the good is the enemy of the best", the merely good - although good - is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."
- zwitterions — Plural form of zwitterion.