11-letter words containing n, a, o, w
- tower wagon — a trailer carrying an extensible ladder for use in firefighting, photography, repairing overhead wires, trimming trees, etc. Compare cherry picker (def 2).
- townscaping — the act of designing a town
- tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
- trans woman — an adult who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- tweetcation — a short break from posting on the Twitter website
- two a penny — Things that are said to be two a penny or ten a penny are not valuable or interesting because they are very common and easy to find.
- unallowable — not allowable; unacceptable or inadmissible
- unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- unswallowed — not swallowed
- unwoundable — incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed
- up and down — moving in or related to a direction that is up or is regarded as up: the up elevator; the up train traveling north; the up platform of a railroad station.
- up-and-down — moving alternately up and down: the up-and-down swing of levers; an up-and-down tune.
- wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
- 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.
- wagon train — a train of wagons and horses, as one carrying military supplies or transporting settlers in the westward migration.
- wagon vault — barrel vault.
- wagonwright — a person who makes wagons
- wainscoting — wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
- wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
- wait around — If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
- walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
- walk on air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- walk out on — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- waning moon — the moon at any time after full moon and before new moon (so called because its illuminated area is decreasing).
- war footing — the condition or status of a military force or other organization when operating under a state of war or as if a state of war existed.
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warmongerer — Misspelling of warmonger.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
- washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
- water lemon — yellow granadilla.
- water wagon — a wagon used to transport water, as in military field operations or on a construction site.
- water-borne — A water-borne disease or infection is one that people can catch from infected water.
- waterfronts — Plural form of waterfront.
- watermelons — Plural form of watermelon.
- watson-watt — Sir Robert Alexander, 1892–1973, Scottish physicist: helped develop radar.
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- watt-second — a unit of energy equal to the energy of one watt acting for one second; the equivalent of one joule.
- waxing moon — the moon at any time after new moon and before full moon, so called because its illuminated area is increasing.
- way station — a station intermediate between principal stations, as on a railroad.
- weatherworn — weather-beaten.
- weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
- west covina — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- west jordan — a town in N central Utah.
- west orange — a town in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- wet contact — a contact through which direct current flows.
- whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.