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11-letter words containing o, a, k, w

  • leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
  • luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
  • lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
  • manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
  • market town — a town where a regularly scheduled market is held.
  • master-work — masterpiece.
  • masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
  • mdewakanton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
  • metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
  • musk mallow — Also called musk rose. a European mallow, Malva moschata, introduced into North America, having musk-scented white or lavender flowers.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pillow talk — private conversation, endearments, or confidences exchanged in bed or in intimate circumstances between spouses or lovers.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
  • schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
  • shadow mask — a perforated metal sheet mounted close to the phosphor-dotted screen in some colour television tubes. The holes are positioned so that each of the three electron beams strikes the correct phosphor dot producing the required colour mixture in the image
  • social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
  • sparrowhawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
  • spatterwork — a method of decorating whereby ink or another fluid is spattered over a medium
  • spokeswoman — a woman who speaks for another person or for a group.
  • stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
  • swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
  • szymanowski — Karol [kah-rawl] /ˈkɑ rɔl/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1937, Polish composer.
  • tae kwon do — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
  • thankworthy — deserving gratitude.
  • visualworks — (language)   A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
  • wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
  • wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard
  • 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.
  • walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wall socket — socket (def 2b).
  • warriorlike — Like a warrior.
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
  • whacked out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • whacked-out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
  • whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
  • widowmakers — Plural form of widowmaker.
  • willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
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