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

  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • tree mallow — a malvaceous treelike plant, Lavatera arborea, of rocky coastal areas of Europe and N Africa, having a woody stem, rounded leaves, and red-purple flowers
  • trelliswork — latticework.
  • trestlework — a structural system composed of trestles.
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • two-wheeler — a vehicle, especially a bicycle, having two wheels: The boy changed his tricycle for a two-wheeler.
  • vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).
  • vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
  • waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
  • waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
  • 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)
  • wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
  • warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
  • warriorlike — Like a warrior.
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • water lemon — yellow granadilla.
  • water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
  • water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • welding rod — filler metal supplied in the form of a rod, usually coated with flux
  • well-formed — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
  • well-proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • well-sorted — (of sedimentary particles) uniform in size.
  • well-worded — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • well-worked — that has undergone working.
  • welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
  • wereleopard — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between leopard and human form.
  • werewolfery — the condition of being a werewolf
  • werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
  • westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • wheel cover — a fancy cover for the wheels of motor vehicles: larger than a hubcap
  • wheel horse — Also called wheeler. a horse, or one of the horses, harnessed behind others and nearest the front wheels of a vehicle.
  • wheelbarrow — a frame or box for conveying a load, supported at one end by a wheel or wheels, and lifted and pushed at the other by two horizontal shafts.
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
  • wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
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