11-letter words containing m, w
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hardwareman — (obsolete) An ironmonger.
- hawaii time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
- highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
- home waters — territorial waters
- homeworkers — Plural form of homeworker.
- homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
- homewrecker — One who is blamed for the breakup of a marriage or family, such as an adulterous partner.
- howard moss — Howard, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
- hum and haw — If you hem and haw, or in British English hum and haw, you take a long time to say something because you cannot think of the right words, or because you are not sure what to say.
- in the swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- inner woman — a woman's mind, soul, or nature
- iykwimaityd — if you know what I mean and I think you do
- jim crowism — Jim Crow (def 1).
- jimson weed — a coarse, rank-smelling weed, Datura stramonium, of the nightshade family, having oaklike, poisonous leaves and tubular white or lavender flowers.
- jimsonweeds — Plural form of jimsonweed.
- kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
- lamb's wool — a soft, virgin wool possessing superior spinning qualities, shorn from a seven-month-old lamb.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- leg warmers — a set of coverings for the legs, worn for warmth or, as by dancers rehearsing, to prevent leg cramps
- limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
- low milling — a process for making flour in which the grain is ground once and then bolted.
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
- madonnawise — in the manner of a Madonna
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- mallee fowl — an Australian bird, Leipoa ocellata, of variegated gray, brown, white, and black plumage, that lays up to 35 eggs in an incubating mound.
- mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- mammy wagon — a W African vehicle built on a lorry chassis, capable of carrying both passengers and goods
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- market town — a town where a regularly scheduled market is held.
- marrow bean — a plump-seeded strain of the common field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its dry, edible seeds
- marrow bone — Marrow bones are the bones of certain animals, especially cows, that contain a lot of bone marrow. They are used in cooking and in dog food.
- marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- marshmallow — a sweetened paste or confection made from the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow.
- marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
- martial law — the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
- master-work — masterpiece.
- masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- may as well — If you say that something, usually something bad, might as well be true or may as well be true, you mean that the situation is the same or almost the same as if it were true.
- mdewakanton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.