11-letter words containing o, r, w
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warm sector — the region of warmest air bounded by the cold and warm fronts of a cyclone.
- warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
- warmed over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- warmed-over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- warmongerer — Misspelling of warmonger.
- warriorhood — The state of being a warrior.
- warriorlike — Like a warrior.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
- washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
- watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- water lemon — yellow granadilla.
- water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
- water motor — any form of prime mover or motor that is operated by the kinetic energy, pressure, or weight of water, especially a small turbine or waterwheel fitted to a pipe supplying water.
- water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
- water poppy — a Brazilian, aquatic plant, Hydrocleys nymphoides, having yellow, poppylike flowers.
- water power — the power of water used, or capable of being used, to drive machinery, turbines, etc.
- water tower — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to a height sufficient to maintain a desired pressure for firefighting, distribution to customers, etc.
- water vapor — a dispersion, in air, of molecules of water, especially as produced by evaporation at ambient temperatures rather than by boiling. Compare steam (def 2).
- 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.
- watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
- watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
- watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
- watercourse — a stream of water, as a river or brook.
- waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
- waterfronts — Plural form of waterfront.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
- waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
- watermelons — Plural form of watermelon.
- waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
- waterspouts — Plural form of waterspout.
- wave theory — Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- weathercoat — Also, weathercoating. a weatherproof coating, applied especially to the exterior of a building.
- weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
- weatherford — a town in N Texas.
- weathermost — (nautical) Farthest to the windward side.
- weatherworn — weather-beaten.
- web browser — a person or thing that browses.
- weight room — weight-training gym
- welding rod — filler metal supplied in the form of a rod, usually coated with flux
- well-formed — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
- well-proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- well-sorted — (of sedimentary particles) uniform in size.
- well-worded — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- well-worked — that has undergone working.