11-letter words containing p, w, a
- 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 blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
- swamp fever — leptospirosis.
- swamp maple — red maple.
- swan-upping — the taking up of young swans to mark them with nicks on the beak for identification.
- swarm spore — zoospore
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- sweat pants — loose-fitting pants of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, usually with a drawstring at the waist and close-fitting or elastic cuffs at the ankles, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- sweepstakes — a sweepstakes.
- swing space — a temporary working environment, used esp while renovations are being carried out
- swiss lapis — cracked quartz, stained blue in imitation of lapis lazuli.
- tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- tawny pipit — a small sandy-brown European bird, Anthus campestris, of the wagtail family; an irregular migrant to some parts of Britain
- 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
- townscaping — the act of designing a town
- two a penny — Things that are said to be two a penny or ten a penny are not valuable or interesting because they are very common and easy to find.
- under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- unpathwayed — unpathed, pathless
- up and down — moving in or related to a direction that is up or is regarded as up: the up elevator; the up train traveling north; the up platform of a railroad station.
- up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- up-and-down — moving alternately up and down: the up-and-down swing of levers; an up-and-down tune.
- wading pool — a small, shallow pool for children to wade and play in.
- wage packet — regular pay from an employer
- wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
- walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
- 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.
- waspishness — The quality of being waspish.
- 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.