11-letter words containing l, w, e
- west berlin — Irving, 1888–1989, U.S. songwriter.
- west helena — a city in E Arkansas.
- westerville — a town in central Ohio.
- 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.
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- wet blanket — person: spoilsport
- wet-blanket — to extinguish (a fire) with a wet blanket.
- wettability — the condition of being wettable.
- whale shark — a tropical shark, Rhincodon typus, ranging in size from 30 to 60 feet (9 to 18 meters), having small teeth and a sievelike structure over its gills for catching plankton.
- whale watch — trip to observe sea mammals
- whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
- whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.
- what a life — People say 'What a life' to indicate that they are unhappy or are having great difficulties.
- wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
- wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
- wheedlesome — tending to wheedle
- wheel brace — a tool used to loosen or tighten the nuts holding a vehicle's wheel in place
- wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.
- wheel cover — a fancy cover for the wheels of motor vehicles: larger than a hubcap
- wheel gauge — the distance between two wheels on the same axle of a vehicle
- 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.
- wheelchairs — Plural form of wheelchair.
- wheelhouses — Plural form of wheelhouse.
- wheelie bin — refuse bin on wheels
- wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
- wheelwright — John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
- wherewithal — that with which to do something; means or supplies for the purpose or need, especially money: the wherewithal to pay my rent.
- whiffletree — a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces of a harness are fastened for pulling a cart, carriage, plow, etc.
- whigmaleery — whigmaleerie.
- whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
- whippletree — whiffletree.
- whiskerless — Without whiskers.
- 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.
- whistle pig — a woodchuck.
- whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
- whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- white alder — sweet pepperbush.
- white alert — (in military or civilian defense) an all-clear signal, directive, etc., indicating that the danger of air raid no longer exists.
- white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
- 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
- white light — light perceived by the eye as having the same color as sunlight at noon.
- white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- white metal — any of various light-colored alloys, as Babbitt metal or Britannia metal.
- white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
- white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
- white whale — beluga (def 2).
- white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.