11-letter words containing r, a, w
- wine waiter — a waiter in a restaurant who is responsible for serving wine
- wing collar — a stand-up collar having the front edges or corners folded down, worn by men for formal or evening dress.
- winter oats — oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- 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 agency — a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.
- wire-drawer — a machine for drawing metal into wire
- wire-haired — having coarse, stiff, wirelike hair.
- wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
- wisecracked — Simple past tense and past participle of wisecrack.
- wisecracker — a smart or facetious remark.
- witch alder — a shrub, Fothergilla gardenii, of the witch hazel family, native to the southeastern U.S., having spikes of white flowers that bloom before the leaves appear.
- witch grass — a panic grass, Panicum capillare, having a bushlike compound panicle, common as a weed in North America.
- witchcrafts — Plural form of witchcraft.
- with a rush — suddenly and forcefully
- with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- withdrawals — Plural form of withdrawal.
- withdrawing — Present participle of withdraw.
- wither away — weaken and die
- withstander — A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
- wizard book — (publication) Hal Abelson, Gerald Sussman and Julie Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (MIT Press, 1984; ISBN 0-262-01077-1), an excellent computer science text used in introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less commonly, known as the Purple Book.
- wokka board — a piece of fibreboard used as a musical instrument
- woman-hater — a person, especially a man, who dislikes women; misogynist.
- wonderbread — (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
- wonderlands — Plural form of wonderland.
- wood rabbit — a cottontail.
- woodcarving — the art or technique of carving objects by hand from wood or of carving decorations into wood.
- woodcrafter — a person who makes or carves wooden objects.
- woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
- word accent — word stress.
- word search — puzzle: words hidden in grid
- word square — a set of words such that when arranged one beneath another in the form of a square they read alike horizontally and vertically.
- work basket — a basket for holding sewing equipment
- work of art — a piece of creative work in the arts, especially a painting or sculpture.
- work-harden — to toughen or strengthen (a metal) by cold-working or another mechanical process.
- workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
- workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- workbaskets — Plural form of workbasket.
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- workmanlike — like or befitting a workman.
- workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
- workstation — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- worksurface — A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on.
- workwatcher — a person who observes racehorses in training
- world war i — the war (1914–18), fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, in which the Allies (principally France, Russia, Britain, Italy after 1915, and the US after 1917) defeated the Central Powers (principally Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey). The war was precipitated by the assassination of Austria's crown prince (Archduke Franz Ferdinand) at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 and swiftly developed its major front in E France, where millions died in static trench warfare. After the October Revolution (1917) the Bolsheviks ended Russian participation in the war (Dec 15, 1917). The exhausted Central Powers agreed to an armistice on Nov 11, 1918 and quickly succumbed to internal revolution, before being forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) and other treaties
- world-class — ranking among the world's best; outstanding: a world-class orchestra.
- world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.