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11-letter words containing k, e, w

  • clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
  • corkscrewed — Simple past tense and past participle of corkscrew.
  • counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
  • course work — Course work is work that students do during a course, rather than in exams, especially work that counts towards a student's final grade.
  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • crackleware — porcelain or pottery decorated with intentional crazing in the glaze
  • crochetwork — needlework done by crocheting.
  • dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
  • die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.
  • dock worker — A dock worker is a person who works in the docks, loading and unloading ships.
  • dockworkers — Plural form of dockworker.
  • donkey work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
  • donkey-work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
  • down ticket — relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.
  • down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
  • downstrokes — Plural form of downstroke.
  • drudge-work — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
  • easter week — the week that begins with Easter Day and ends the following Saturday
  • electroweak — combining both the electromagnetic and weak forces or interactions
  • farm worker — a person who is hired to work on a farm
  • farmworkers — Plural form of farmworker.
  • fast worker — a person who is quick and shrewd in gaining personal advantage: A fast worker, he soon knew everyone who had any pull.
  • fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
  • flake white — lead white.
  • floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
  • foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
  • framework 4 — A European Union funding programme, the information technology portion of which replaced ESPRIT.
  • frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
  • gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
  • glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
  • googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
  • hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
  • hand-worker — a person who does handwork
  • hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
  • hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
  • homeworkers — Plural form of homeworker.
  • homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
  • homewrecker — One who is blamed for the breakup of a marriage or family, such as an adulterous partner.
  • hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
  • houseworker — a paid employee in a home, as a maid or cook.
  • hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
  • in the know — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
  • ironworkers — Plural form of ironworker.
  • jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
  • jaw-breaker — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
  • jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
  • journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
  • keep wicket — to play as wicketkeeper in the game of cricket
  • kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc
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