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11-letter words containing r, o, l, e, t, w

  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
  • steelworker — a person employed in the process of manufacturing steel and steel products.
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
  • tallow tree — a small tree, Sapium sebiferum, of the spurge family, cultivated in China and the tropics, having popcorn-shaped seeds with a waxy coating that is used for soap, candles, and oil.
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • tree mallow — a malvaceous treelike plant, Lavatera arborea, of rocky coastal areas of Europe and N Africa, having a woody stem, rounded leaves, and red-purple flowers
  • trelliswork — latticework.
  • trestlework — a structural system composed of trestles.
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • two-wheeler — a vehicle, especially a bicycle, having two wheels: The boy changed his tricycle for a two-wheeler.
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • water lemon — yellow granadilla.
  • water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
  • water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
  • watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
  • watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
  • watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
  • waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
  • waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
  • waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
  • watermelons — Plural form of watermelon.
  • well-sorted — (of sedimentary particles) uniform in size.
  • westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • world title — the winner's position in an international competition
  • worldbeater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
  • worthlessly — In a worthless manner.
  • wriggle out — to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
  • yellow rust — stripe rust.
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