11-letter words containing n, o, w
- 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.
- web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
- weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
- weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
- welcomeness — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
- welding rod — filler metal supplied in the form of a rod, usually coated with flux
- well enough — sufficiently
- well-bonded — secured by or consisting of bonds: bonded debt.
- well-chosen — chosen with care, as for suitability or preciseness: He entered at a well-chosen moment.
- well-proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- well-spoken — speaking well, fittingly, or pleasingly: The new chairwoman was very well-spoken.
- wellfounded — (math) Alternative form of well-founded.
- wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
- wendy house — a child's playhouse.
- west covina — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- west jordan — a town in N central Utah.
- west monroe — a city in N Louisiana.
- west orange — a town in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
- westernmost — most western or westerly; farthest west.
- 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.
- wh question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
- wh-question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
- whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.
- whenceforth — from which time or place forward
- whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
- whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- white bacon — bacon (def 2).
- white noise — Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds.