11-letter words containing p, w, a
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- hyper-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.
- jew-s--harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
- lace pillow — pillow (def 3).
- lakshadweep — a union territory of India comprising a group of islands and coral reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India. About 12 sq. mi. (31 sq. km).
- 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.
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- mopani worm — an edible caterpillar that feeds on mopani leaves
- nay pyi taw — the official capital of Myanmar (Burma), built in the centre of the country near Pyinmana in 2005–2006, and superseding Yangon (Rangoon) for main government functions. Pop: officially approaching 1 000 000 in 2007
- new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
- norway pine — red pine.
- pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
- paddy wagon — Informal. patrol wagon.
- palmer worm — the hairy black and white caterpillar of the goldtail moth
- palolo worm — a polychaete worm, Eunice viridis, that lives in burrows among the coral reefs of several South Pacific islands, producing sperm or eggs in posterior segments that are cast off periodically in enormous numbers.
- palsy-walsy — friendly or appearing to be friendly in a very intimate or hearty way: The police kept their eye on him because he was trying to get palsy-walsy with the security guard.
- paper towel — absorbent kitchen tissue
- paperweight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
- parataniwha — a New Zealand plant, Elatostema rugosa, with pink and red serrated leaves
- parian ware — an English and American hardpaste porcelain ware introduced c1850, having a white, hard surface and used mainly for biscuit figures.
- part way up — some way towards the summit
- passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- passed pawn — a pawn with no opposing pawn either on an adjacent file or on its own file.
- patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
- pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
- peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
- pedal power — use of a cycle
- peely-wally — off colour; pale and ill-looking
- pennine way — a long-distance footpath extending from Edale, Derbyshire, for 402 km (250 miles) to Kirk Yetholm, Scottish Borders
- petah tiqwa — city in WC Israel: pop. 153,000
- pickwickian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Mr. Pickwick, central character of The Pickwick Papers.
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- pillow lace — bobbin lace.
- pillow lava — lava in the form of an agglomeration of rounded, pillow-shaped masses, the result of subaqueous or subglacial volcanic eruption.
- pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
- pillow talk — private conversation, endearments, or confidences exchanged in bed or in intimate circumstances between spouses or lovers.
- pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
- plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
- plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
- policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
- polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.