11-letter words containing o, r, w
- jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.
- jewelry box — case for valuable accessories
- jim crowism — Jim Crow (def 1).
- joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
- journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
- kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
- killer blow — something that puts a stop to something or defeats something
- knockwursts — Plural form of knockwurst.
- know better — be sufficiently wise
- kwashiorkor — a malnutrition disease, chiefly of children, caused by severe protein and vitamin deficiency and characterized by retarded growth, changes in pigmentation, potbelly, and anemia.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- land worker — a person who works on the land
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
- leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
- life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- littleworth — worthless; of little value
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
- long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
- low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
- low profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
- low-calorie — containing relatively fewer calories than comparable foods, diets, etc
- low-country — Often, Low-Country. of or relating to the Low Countries.
- low-powered — having little power or capacity
- low-profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
- low-protein — Low-protein substances contain very little protein.
- low-scoring — (of a sports match) having, getting, or ending in a low score
- low-sulphur — (esp of fuel) containing or made from sources containing relatively little sulphur
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- lower class — classes lower in rank than middle class
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
- lower egypt — Arab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
- lower house — one of two branches of a legislature, generally more representative and with more members than the upper branch.
- lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
- lower rhine — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
- lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
- lower world — Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.
- lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
- mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these