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11-letter words containing o, w, e, l, s

  • watsonville — a city in W California.
  • 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.
  • weight loss — slimming
  • welcomeness — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
  • well-chosen — chosen with care, as for suitability or preciseness: He entered at a well-chosen moment.
  • well-sorted — (of sedimentary particles) uniform in size.
  • well-spoken — speaking well, fittingly, or pleasingly: The new chairwoman was very well-spoken.
  • wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
  • welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
  • welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
  • werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
  • westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
  • westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
  • wheedlesome — tending to wheedle
  • wheel horse — Also called wheeler. a horse, or one of the horses, harnessed behind others and nearest the front wheels of a vehicle.
  • wheelhouses — Plural form of wheelhouse.
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
  • wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
  • wholesalers — Plural form of wholesaler.
  • wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
  • wholesomely — In a wholesome manner.
  • wholesomest — Superlative form of wholesome.
  • wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
  • wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
  • wolf spider — any of numerous ground spiders of the family Lycosidae, including the southern European tarantula, Lycosa taretula, that hunt their prey instead of using a web.
  • wolfishness — The quality of being wolfish.
  • womanliness — like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
  • women's lib — women's liberation: rights
  • wonderlands — Plural form of wonderland.
  • wood sorrel — any of numerous plants of the genus Oxalis, especially O. acetosella, of Eurasia, having heart-shaped, trifoliolate leaves and white, pink-veined flowers.
  • wool sponge — a commercial sponge, Hippiospongia lachne, of Florida and the West Indies, the surface of which resembles the fleece of a sheep.
  • woolgrowers — Plural form of woolgrower.
  • worldliness — of or relating to this world as contrasted with heaven, spiritual life, etc.; earthly; mundane.
  • worrisomely — In a worrisome way.
  • worse luck! — unhappily; unfortunately
  • worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
  • worshipless — lacking worship, not worshipped
  • worthlessly — In a worthless manner.
  • wranglesome — Inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
  • yellow hats — the sect of Tibetan Buddhist monks established after religious reforms in the 14th century.
  • yellow rust — stripe rust.
  • yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
  • yellow spot — Ophthalmology. macula (def 2b).
  • yellowcress — Rorippa palustris, a flowering plant in the mustard family.
  • yellowheads — Plural form of yellowhead.
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