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11-letter words containing n, e, w, i, g

  • wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
  • whimperings — Plural form of whimpering.
  • whisperings — Plural form of whispering.
  • white night — a sleepless night.
  • whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
  • wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
  • wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
  • 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.
  • 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 orange — laurel cherry.
  • willingness — disposed or consenting; inclined: willing to go along.
  • wind energy — wind power.
  • windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
  • wine gallon — a former English gallon of 160 fluid ounces: equal to the present U.S. standard gallon of 128 fluid ounces.
  • wine grower — a person who owns or works in a vineyard and winery.
  • wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
  • winegrowing — the work or business of a winegrower.
  • winetasting — a gathering of critics, buyers, friends, etc., to taste a group of wines for comparative purposes.
  • wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
  • wing-footed — having winged feet.
  • winged bean — a tropical Asian vine, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, of the legume family, of which the pods, seeds, leaves, and flowers are edible and nutritious.
  • winnipegger — a city in and the capital of Manitoba, in S Canada, on the Red River.
  • wintergreen — Also called checkerberry. a small, creeping, evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens, of the heath family, common in eastern North America, having white, nodding, bell-shaped flowers, a bright-red, berrylike fruit, and aromatic leaves that yield a volatile oil.
  • winterizing — Present participle of winterize.
  • wire agency — a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.
  • wirepulling — an act of pulling wires.
  • wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
  • wireworking — the use of wire to make functional or decorative works
  • witenagemot — the assembly of the witan; the national council attended by the king, aldermen, bishops, and nobles.
  • witheringly — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
  • wonder girl — an outstanding girl or woman
  • wonderingly — In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
  • wood pigeon — Also called ringdove. a European pigeon, Columba palumbus, having a whitish patch on each side of the neck.
  • working bee — a voluntary group doing a job for charity
  • wrenchingly — In a wrenching manner; with a sudden jerk or emotional shock.
  • zwischenzug — a tactical move interpolated into an exchange or series of exchanges to improve the outcome
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