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11-letter words containing n, e, t, w, o

  • power point — electrical socket
  • power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
  • pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • resort town — a holiday town
  • robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
  • round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
  • settle down — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
  • seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • snow report — a regular weather report that concentrates on details of amounts of snow and conditions at ski resorts
  • snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
  • sopping wet — soaked, dripping
  • state-owned — owned by the state; not privately owned
  • stateswoman — a woman who is experienced in the art of government.
  • steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • stoneworker — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
  • swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • switched on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
  • tae kwon do — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
  • the network — network, the
  • the wagoner — Auriga
  • the wounded — persons wounded, esp. in warfare
  • thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
  • tongue worm — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
  • tongues wag — If tongues are wagging, people are talking a lot about someone and their behaviour.
  • tonic water — drink: carbonated water
  • 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 crane — a rotatable cantilever jib on top of a steelwork tower used on building sites where the operator needs to command a good view of the site
  • tower wagon — a trailer carrying an extensible ladder for use in firefighting, photography, repairing overhead wires, trimming trees, etc. Compare cherry picker (def 2).
  • town centre — the most important commercial or business area of a town, containing most of the shops, banks, restaurants etc
  • townspeople — residents of a town
  • tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • tumble down — collapse, fall
  • tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
  • tweetcation — a short break from posting on the Twitter website
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