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11-letter words containing p, a, r, w

  • spirit away — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
  • sportswoman — a woman who engages in sports.
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • superlawyer — an extremely successful lawyer
  • superweapon — an extremely powerful weapon
  • swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
  • swamp fever — leptospirosis.
  • swarm spore — zoospore
  • tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
  • wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
  • wall pepper — a small Eurasian crassulaceous plant, Sedum acre, having creeping stems, yellow flowers, and acrid-tasting leaves
  • wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
  • wallpapered — Simple past tense and past participle of wallpaper.
  • wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
  • war surplus — equipment, supplies, etc., originally used by or manufactured for the armed forces, but disposed of cheaply as surplus or obsolete: He made his fortune in war surplus.
  • warm spring — a thermal spring having a temperature of up to 98°F (37°C).
  • warming pan — a long-handled, covered pan, usually of brass, filled with live coals or hot water for warming a cold bed.
  • warsaw pact — an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command.
  • watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
  • watchstraps — Plural form of watchstrap.
  • water nymph — a nymph of the water, as a naiad, a Nereid, or an Oceanid.
  • water paint — a pigment, as watercolor, in which water is used as the vehicle.
  • water pipit — a common, sparrow-sized pipit, Anthus spinoletta, of the Northern Hemisphere.
  • water plant — a plant that grows in water.
  • 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 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).
  • waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
  • waterscapes — Plural form of waterscape.
  • waterspouts — Plural form of waterspout.
  • waxed paper — Waxed paper is the same as wax paper.
  • weather map — a map or chart showing weather conditions over a wide area at a particular time, compiled from simultaneous observations at different places.
  • wentletraps — Plural form of wentletrap.
  • wereleopard — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between leopard and human form.
  • werepanther — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between panther and human form.
  • wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
  • white paper — paper bleached white.
  • winter park — a city in E Florida.
  • wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
  • wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
  • workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
  • worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
  • wraparounds — Plural form of wraparound.
  • wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
  • wrist plate — a platelike part of a mechanism, oscillating in its own plane, to which links or rods are attached by pins.
  • writing pad — a book containing pieces of paper for you to write on
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