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11-letter words containing o, r, w

  • brown goods — Brown goods are electrical appliances such as televisions and audio equipment. Compare white goods.
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown hyena — a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
  • brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
  • brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
  • brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
  • brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • brown swiss — a hardy breed of large, brown dairy cattle, first raised in Switzerland
  • brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
  • brown trout — a common brownish variety of the trout Salmo trutta that occurs in the rivers of N Europe and has been successfully introduced in North America
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
  • browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
  • bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
  • burrowstown — a burgh town
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
  • buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
  • cabbageworm — any caterpillar that feeds on cabbages, esp that of the cabbage white
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
  • camerawoman — a woman who operates a film or television camera
  • camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • care worker — A care worker is someone whose job involves helping people who have particular problems or special needs, for example in a care home.
  • caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
  • cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
  • casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
  • chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
  • chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
  • churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
  • churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
  • citron wood — the wood of the citron tree
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • clergywomen — Plural form of clergywoman.
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