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11-letter words containing r, e, p, l

  • volt-ampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
  • 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
  • water plant — a plant that grows in water.
  • well-priced — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
  • well-proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • wellreputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
  • wellsprings — Plural form of wellspring.
  • wentletraps — Plural form of wentletrap.
  • wereleopard — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between leopard and human form.
  • wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
  • whippletree — whiffletree.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • world power — a nation, organization, or institution so powerful that it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events.
  • worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
  • worshipless — lacking worship, not worshipped
  • 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.
  • xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.
  • xi particle — any of a family of baryons having strangeness −2 and isotopic spin ½. Symbol: Ξ.
  • xylographed — Simple past tense and past participle of xylograph.
  • xylographer — A person who makes xylographs.
  • y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits
  • zebra plant — any of several plants having conspicuously striped or veined foliage, as Calathea zebrina, of Brazil.
  • zooplankter — an individual animal or animallike organism in plankton.
  • zygopleural — possessing symmetry on both sides
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