11-letter words containing p, w
- welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
- weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
- 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.
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- 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.
- whimperings — Plural form of whimpering.
- whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
- whippletree — whiffletree.
- whisperings — Plural form of whispering.
- whistle pig — a woodchuck.
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- 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 perch — a small game fish, Morone americana, greenish-gray above and silvery below, inhabiting streams along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- 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.
- whiteprints — Plural form of whiteprint.
- whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
- whoop it up — a loud cry or shout, as of excitement or joy.
- whoop-de-do — lively and noisy festivities; merrymaking: New Year's Eve whoop-de-do.
- widechapped — open-mouthed
- wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
- wimpishness — The state or quality of being wimpish.
- wind sprint — a sprint, usually run several times in succession as part of a conditioning program, to develop an athlete's wind, speed, and endurance.
- windom peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,082 feet (4292 meters).
- window-shop — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- windowpanes — Plural form of windowpane.
- wine expert — specialist or connoisseur of wines
- winepresses — Plural form of winepress.
- winnipegger — a city in and the capital of Manitoba, in S Canada, on the Red River.
- 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
- wire-puller — a person or thing that pulls wires.
- wirepulling — an act of pulling wires.
- 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.
- witherspoon — John, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
- wobble pump — an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.
- wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- 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.
- wood hoopoe — any of several tropical, African birds of the family Phoeniculidae, having metallic, blackish plumage and slender, curved bills.
- wood pigeon — Also called ringdove. a European pigeon, Columba palumbus, having a whitish patch on each side of the neck.
- wood spirit — methyl alcohol.
- woodchipper — a motor-driven machine that cuts wood into chips.