11-letter words containing i, t, w
- way station — a station intermediate between principal stations, as on a railroad.
- weak sister — a vacillating person; coward.
- wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
- weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
- weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
- weatherized — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherize.
- weatherwise — (domain) With respect to the weather.
- web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
- webmeisters — Plural form of webmeister.
- webmistress — a woman who designs and maintains a website.
- weierstrass — Karl Theodor [kahrl tey-oh-dawr] /kɑrl ˈteɪ oʊˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1815–97, German mathematician.
- weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
- weight belt — a belt worn to control a diver's buoyancy under water, on which slotted lead weights can be slipped according to the diver's body size and weight and having a quick-release buckle for emergency discarding.
- weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
- weight loss — slimming
- weight room — weight-training gym
- weightiness — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
- weingartner — (Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- weldability — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well suited — appropriate: She is suited to such a job.
- well-fitted — made so as to follow closely the contours of a form or shape: fitted clothes; fitted sheets.
- well-suited — appropriate: She is suited to such a job.
- wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
- weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
- welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
- west africa — most westerly part of Africa
- west berlin — Irving, 1888–1989, U.S. songwriter.
- west covina — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- west indian — (used with a plural verb). Also called the Indies. an archipelago in the N Atlantic between North and South America, comprising the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
- west indies — (used with a plural verb). Also called the Indies. an archipelago in the N Atlantic between North and South America, comprising the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
- west riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, England.
- west-facing — orientated towards the west
- westernised — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- westernized — to influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc., characteristic of the Occident or of the western U.S.
- westernizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of westernize.
- westerville — a town in central Ohio.
- westminster — a central borough (officially a city) of Greater London, England: Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- wet machine — a machine for dewatering pulp.
- wettability — the condition of being wettable.
- wh question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
- wh-question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
- what a life — People say 'What a life' to indicate that they are unhappy or are having great difficulties.
- whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
- wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
- wheat ridge — a town in central Colorado, near Denver.
- wheelwright — John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.