11-letter words containing p, w, a
- 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.
- well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- well-padded — (of a person) corpulent; portly; fat
- well-placed — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- well-played — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- well-shaped — of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination): a U -shaped driveway.
- 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.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wet compass — a compass having a compass card floating in a liquid.
- wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.
- wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
- whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
- white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
- white paper — paper bleached white.
- white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
- whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
- widechapped — open-mouthed
- wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
- windom peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,082 feet (4292 meters).
- windowpanes — Plural form of windowpane.
- 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.
- with a bump — If someone comes down to earth with a bump, they suddenly start recognizing unpleasant facts after a period of time when they have not been doing this.
- wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- 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
- yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap