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11-letter words containing n, w, o, r

  • rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
  • rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
  • round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • showeriness — the state or quality of being showery
  • showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
  • simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
  • skunk works — (usually lowercase). Also, skunk works, skunkworks [skuhngk-wurks] /ˈskʌŋkˌwɜrks/ (Show IPA). Slang. an often secret experimental laboratory or facility for producing innovative products, as in the computer or aerospace field.
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
  • snow blower — a motor-driven machine on wheels used to remove snow by throwing it into the air and to one side.
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
  • snow report — a regular weather report that concentrates on details of amounts of snow and conditions at ski resorts
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
  • snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
  • snowy river — a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)
  • songwriting — composing melodies and lyrics
  • spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
  • spoken word — The spoken word is used to refer to language expressed in speech, for example in contrast to written texts or music.
  • sportswoman — a woman who engages in sports.
  • spring snow — corn snow.
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • stoneworker — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
  • strand wolf — brown hyena.
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
  • superweapon — an extremely powerful weapon
  • swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
  • swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • sword dance — any of various dances, usually performed by men, in which swords are ceremonially flourished or are laid on the ground and danced around.
  • sword-point — the point of a sword
  • swordswoman — a female who uses or is skilled in the use of a sword.
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • thankworthy — deserving gratitude.
  • the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
  • the network — network, the
  • the wagoner — Auriga
  • to run wild — If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
  • to windward — toward the wind; toward the point from which the wind blows.
  • tongue worm — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
  • tonic water — drink: carbonated water
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