11-letter words containing n, o, w
- womanliness — like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
- women's lib — women's liberation: rights
- wonder drug — a drug, usually recently discovered or developed, noted for its startling curative effect, as an antibiotic or sulfa drug.
- wonder girl — an outstanding girl or woman
- wonderberry — the black, edible fruit of an improved garden variety of the black nightshade.
- wonderbread — (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
- wonderfully — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wonderingly — In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
- wonderlands — Plural form of wonderland.
- wonderworks — Plural form of wonderwork.
- wonga-wonga — a woody Australian vine, Pandorea pandorana, of the bignonia family, having showy clusters of yellowish-white flowers streaked with purple.
- wonkishness — The state or condition of being wonkish.
- wood betony — the betony, Stachys officinalis.
- wood pigeon — Also called ringdove. a European pigeon, Columba palumbus, having a whitish patch on each side of the neck.
- woodcarving — the art or technique of carving objects by hand from wood or of carving decorations into wood.
- wooden shoe — sabot (def 1).
- woodturning — The action of shaping wood with a lathe.
- woodworking — the act or art of making things of wood.
- wool sponge — a commercial sponge, Hippiospongia lachne, of Florida and the West Indies, the surface of which resembles the fleece of a sheep.
- word accent — word stress.
- wordishness — the use or manner of using words
- work-harden — to toughen or strengthen (a metal) by cold-working or another mechanical process.
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- workbenches — Plural form of workbench.
- working bee — a voluntary group doing a job for charity
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working dog — one of any of several breeds of usually large, powerful dogs originally developed to assist people in their daily work, as draft animals, guard dogs, and guide dogs, and including the boxer, bullmastiff, Doberman pinscher, Great Dane, St. Bernard, and Siberian Husky.
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- workmanlike — like or befitting a workman.
- workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
- workstation — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- world point — (in relativity) a point in space-time, specified by three space coordinates and a time coordinate. Compare event (def 4).
- worldliness — of or relating to this world as contrasted with heaven, spiritual life, etc.; earthly; mundane.
- worshipping — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- worthington — a town in central Ohio.
- wranglesome — Inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
- wraparounds — Plural form of wraparound.
- wrist joint — articulation between arm and hand
- wrong fount — an error in which a type of the wrong face or size is used
- wrong thing — (jargon) A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalised; always emphasised in speech as if capitalised. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where "the good is the enemy of the best", the merely good - although good - is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."
- wrongdoings — Plural form of wrongdoing.
- wrongheaded — wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
- yachtswoman — a woman who owns or sails a yacht, or who is devoted to yachting.
- yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
- yellow line — A yellow line is a narrow yellow line painted at the edge of a road to warn drivers that parking is not allowed there, or is only allowed at certain times.
- yellow pine — any of several North American pines yielding a strong, yellowish wood.
- yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
- yellowfinch — any of several tropical American finches of the genus Sicalis, most of which are bright yellow in color.
- yellowknife — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
- yellowshins — Yellowlegs.