11-letter words containing n, o, w, a, r
- the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
- the wagoner — Auriga
- to windward — toward the wind; toward the point from which the wind blows.
- 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).
- 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.
- unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- 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.
- wagonwright — a person who makes wagons
- 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.
- walk on air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- 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.
- weatherworn — weather-beaten.
- 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.
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- 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.
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- wing collar — a stand-up collar having the front edges or corners folded down, worn by men for formal or evening dress.
- winter oats — oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- woman-hater — a person, especially a man, who dislikes women; misogynist.
- wonderbread — (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
- wonderlands — Plural form of wonderland.
- woodcarving — the art or technique of carving objects by hand from wood or of carving decorations into wood.
- word accent — word stress.
- work-harden — to toughen or strengthen (a metal) by cold-working or another mechanical process.
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- workmanlike — like or befitting a workman.
- workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.