11-letter words containing l, w, e
- whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
- whitefeller — (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.
- whitleather — white leather.
- whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
- whole blood — blood directly from the body, from which none of the components have been removed, used in transfusions.
- whole cloth — pure fabrication: fiction, invention
- whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
- whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
- whole-wheat — prepared with the complete wheat kernel.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesalers — Plural form of wholesaler.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wholesomely — In a wholesome manner.
- wholesomest — Superlative form of wholesome.
- wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
- wiffle ball — a hollow plastic baseball, one side of which is perforated to enable the pitching of various types of curveball: used in an informal variation of baseball
- wiggle nail — a fastener consisting of a piece of corrugated sheet steel with one wavy edge sharpened, for uniting two pieces of wood, as in a miter joint.
- wiggle room — room to maneuver; latitude.
- wiggle-tail — wriggler (def 2).
- wilberforce — William, 1759–1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.
- wild celery — tape grass.
- wild fennel — any of several annual herbs of the genus Nigella, having dissected leaves and showy blue or white flowers.
- wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
- wild ginger — any of various plants belonging to the genus Asarum, of the birthwort family, especially A. canadense, a woodland plant of eastern North America, having two heart-shaped leaves, a solitary reddish-brown flower, and a pungent rhizome.
- wild madder — madder1 (defs 1, 2).
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- wild rubber — rubber obtained from trees growing wild.
- wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
- wild weasel — a nickname given various U.S. military aircraft fitted with radar-detection and jamming equipment and designed to suppress enemy air defenses with missiles that home on radar emissions.
- wild-headed — given to wild or exorbitant ideas.
- wildcatters — Plural form of wildcatter.
- wildcrafter — One who takes part in wildcraft.
- wildebeests — Plural form of wildebeest.
- wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
- wilkes land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Australia.
- willfulness — deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- willingness — disposed or consenting; inclined: willing to go along.
- willow herb — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Epilobium, of the evening primrose family, having terminal clusters of purplish or white flowers.
- willstatter — Richard [rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1872–1942, German chemist: Nobel prize 1915.
- winckelmann — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian.
- wind tunnel — a tubular chamber or structure in which a steady current of air can be maintained at a controlled velocity, equipped with devices for measuring and recording forces and moments on scale models of complete aircraft or of their parts or, sometimes, on full-scale aircraft or their parts.
- windlestrae — thin or weak-looking
- windlestraw — a withered stalk of any of various grasses.
- windshields — Plural form of windshield.
- wine cellar — a cellar for the storage of wine.
- wine cooler — a bucket for holding ice to chill a bottle of wine.
- wine gallon — a former English gallon of 160 fluid ounces: equal to the present U.S. standard gallon of 128 fluid ounces.
- wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
- winterishly — In a way that is characteristic of winter.
- winterkills — Plural form of winterkill.