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11-letter words containing l, a, w, r, e

  • waldemar ii — known as Waldemar the Victorious. 1170–1241, king of Denmark (1202–41); son of Waldemar I. He extended the Danish empire, conquering much of Estonia (1219)
  • waldemar iv — surnamed Atterdag. ?1320–75, king of Denmark (1340–75), who reunited the Danish territories but was defeated (1368) by a coalition of his Baltic neighbours
  • waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
  • waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
  • waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
  • wall pepper — a small Eurasian crassulaceous plant, Sedum acre, having creeping stems, yellow flowers, and acrid-tasting leaves
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wall street — a street in New York City, in S Manhattan: the major financial center of the U.S.
  • wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
  • wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
  • wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
  • wallpapered — Simple past tense and past participle of wallpaper.
  • wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
  • wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
  • ward heeler — a minor politician who canvasses voters and does other chores for a political machine or party boss.
  • warlikeness — the state of being warlike
  • warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
  • warrantable — capable of being warranted.
  • warrantless — authorization, sanction, or justification.
  • warriorlike — Like a warrior.
  • wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • water cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
  • water glass — a drinking glass; tumbler.
  • water inlet — opening designed to let water in
  • water lemon — yellow granadilla.
  • water level — the surface level of any body of water.
  • water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
  • water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
  • water plant — a plant that grows in water.
  • water slide — flume
  • water snail — Archimedes' screw.
  • water table — the planar, underground surface beneath which earth materials, as soil or rock, are saturated with water.
  • water wheel — a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
  • watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
  • watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
  • watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
  • waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
  • waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
  • waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
  • watermelons — Plural form of watermelon.
  • waterslides — Plural form of waterslide.
  • wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
  • wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
  • wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
  • weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
  • weatherable — able to withstand the effects of weather
  • weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
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