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11-letter words containing r, e, w, d

  • stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
  • 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.
  • streetwards — towards or facing the street
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweet cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • sword dance — any of various dances, usually performed by men, in which swords are ceremonially flourished or are laid on the ground and danced around.
  • swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • third wheel — odd person out among three people
  • thitherward — Also, thitherward [thith -er-werd, th ith -] /ˈθɪð ər wərd, ˈðɪð-/ (Show IPA), thitherwards. to or toward that place or point; there.
  • throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
  • throw shade — to make a public show of contempt
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
  • tread water — to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
  • un-showered — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
  • under watch — If someone is being kept under watch, they are being guarded or observed all the time.
  • under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
  • under-drawn — to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.
  • under-weigh — under weigh, Nautical. in motion; under way.
  • undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
  • underviewer — a person who inspects a mine every day
  • underweight — weighing less than is usual, required, or proper.
  • underwiring — support provided by an underwire
  • underworked — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
  • underworker — a person who underworks
  • underwriter — a person or company that underwrites policies of insurance or carries on insurance as a business.
  • unempowered — to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.
  • unrewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
  • unterwalden — a canton in central Switzerland: divided into demicantons.
  • unwandering — not wandering or roving, remaining in one place
  • unwarranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
  • unweathered — not weathered; not changed by exposure to the weather
  • vinegarweed — a plant, Trichostema lanceolatum, of the mint family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having clusters of blue flowers with long, protruding filaments and growing in dry, sandy soil.
  • wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
  • wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard
  • waldemar ii — known as Waldemar the Victorious. 1170–1241, king of Denmark (1202–41); son of Waldemar I. He extended the Danish empire, conquering much of Estonia (1219)
  • waldemar iv — surnamed Atterdag. ?1320–75, king of Denmark (1340–75), who reunited the Danish territories but was defeated (1368) by a coalition of his Baltic neighbours
  • waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
  • waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
  • waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
  • wallpapered — Simple past tense and past participle of wallpaper.
  • wand reader — wand (def 6).
  • wand-reader — a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
  • wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
  • wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
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