11-letter words containing l, a, t, e, n
- valve train — A valve train is the total mechanism that causes the valves of an engine to lift and close.
- vellicating — to pluck; twitch.
- velvet bean — a vine, Mucuna deeringiana, of the legume family, having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods, grown in warm regions for forage or as an ornamental.
- ventilating — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
- ventilation — the act of ventilating.
- ventilative — promoting or producing ventilation.
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
- ventral fin — pelvic fin.
- ventricular — of, relating to, or of the nature of a ventricle.
- vespertinal — of, relating to, or occurring in the evening: vespertine stillness.
- vexillation — a group of soldiers in the Roman army, usually comprising a thousand men
- vinblastine — an alkaloid, C 46 H 58 N 4 O 9 , derived from the periwinkle Vinca rosea, used in the treatment of various malignant conditions, especially in the management of lymphomas.
- vol-au-vent — a large shell of light, flaky pastry for filling with vegetable, fish, or meat mixtures, usually with a sauce.
- voluntative — a verb form expressing a desire to perform the action denoted by the verb
- vulcanizate — a vulcanized substance.
- vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
- waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
- wallenstein — Also, Waldstein. Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von [ahl-brekht ven-tsuh l oi-zey-bee-oo s fuh n] /ˈɑl brɛxt ˈvɛn tsəl ɔɪˈzeɪ biˌʊs fən/ (Show IPA), Duke of Friedland [freed-land,, -luh nd;; German freet-lahnt] /ˈfridˌlænd,, -lənd;; German ˈfritˌlɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1583–1634, Austrian general in the Thirty Years' War, born in Bohemia.
- walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
- wanted list — a list of people being searched for by the police in connection with a crime that has been committed
- warrantable — capable of being warranted.
- warrantless — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- water inlet — opening designed to let water in
- water lemon — yellow granadilla.
- water plant — a plant that grows in water.
- water snail — Archimedes' screw.
- watermelons — Plural form of watermelon.
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- well-beaten — formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
- wentletraps — Plural form of wentletrap.
- west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- west helena — a city in E Arkansas.
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wet blanket — person: spoilsport
- wet-blanket — to extinguish (a fire) with a wet blanket.
- windlestrae — thin or weak-looking
- windlestraw — a withered stalk of any of various grasses.
- wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
- xenoblastic — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
- xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals
- yatteringly — in a yattering manner
- zebra plant — any of several plants having conspicuously striped or veined foliage, as Calathea zebrina, of Brazil.
- zinnwaldite — a yellow-brown variety of mica containing iron, found with tin ores.
- zooplankter — an individual animal or animallike organism in plankton.