11-letter words containing n, s, w
- wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
- winepresses — Plural form of winepress.
- winetasting — a gathering of critics, buyers, friends, etc., to taste a group of wines for comparative purposes.
- winsomeness — The quality of being winsome.
- winter oats — oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter rose — Christmas rose.
- wintercress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
- winterishly — In a way that is characteristic of winter.
- winterkills — Plural form of winterkill.
- winterreise — a song cycle (1827) by Franz Schubert, consisting of 24 songs set to poems of Wilhelm Müller.
- wintersweet — a shrub, Chimonanthus praecox, native to China, having large leaves and fragrant yellow flowers.
- wisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- wishfulness — The state or quality of being wishful; sometimes specifically wishful thinking.
- wistfulness — characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.
- with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- withershins — in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster.
- witherspoon — John, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
- withindoors — into or inside the house.
- withstander — A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
- witlessness — lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.
- witness box — witness stand.
- witness-box — witness stand.
- wolfishness — The quality of being wolfish.
- womanliness — like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
- women's lib — women's liberation: rights
- wonderlands — Plural form of wonderland.
- wonderworks — Plural form of wonderwork.
- wonkishness — The state or condition of being wonkish.
- wooden shoe — sabot (def 1).
- wool sponge — a commercial sponge, Hippiospongia lachne, of Florida and the West Indies, the surface of which resembles the fleece of a sheep.
- wordishness — the use or manner of using words
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- workbenches — Plural form of workbench.
- 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.
- 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.
- wranglesome — Inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
- wraparounds — Plural form of wraparound.
- wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
- wrist joint — articulation between arm and hand
- wrongdoings — Plural form of wrongdoing.
- yachtswoman — a woman who owns or sails a yacht, or who is devoted to yachting.
- yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
- yellowshins — Yellowlegs.
- yellowstone — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through Yellowstone Lake and NE through Montana into the Missouri River in W North Dakota. 671 miles (1080 km) long.
- zwischenzug — a tactical move interpolated into an exchange or series of exchanges to improve the outcome
- zwitterions — Plural form of zwitterion.