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11-letter words containing r, w, d

  • white alder — sweet pepperbush.
  • white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
  • white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
  • white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
  • white-bread — pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
  • white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
  • whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
  • whitherward — toward what place; in what direction.
  • whodunnitry — the style or genre of novels, plays, etc concerned with crime
  • whydah bird — any of various predominantly black African weaverbirds of the genus Vidua and related genera, the males of which grow very long tail feathers in the breeding season
  • widdershins — in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster.
  • wide-screen — of, noting, or pertaining to motion pictures projected on a screen having greater width than height, usually in a ratio of 1 to 2.5.
  • widowerhood — The state or period of being a widower.
  • widowmakers — Plural form of widowmaker.
  • wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
  • wild celery — tape grass.
  • wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
  • wild ginger — any of various plants belonging to the genus Asarum, of the birthwort family, especially A. canadense, a woodland plant of eastern North America, having two heart-shaped leaves, a solitary reddish-brown flower, and a pungent rhizome.
  • wild madder — madder1 (defs 1, 2).
  • wild orange — laurel cherry.
  • wild radish — another name for white charlock
  • wild rubber — rubber obtained from trees growing wild.
  • wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
  • wildcatters — Plural form of wildcatter.
  • wildcrafter — One who takes part in wildcraft.
  • wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
  • wind energy — wind power.
  • 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.
  • wind-broken — having the breathing impaired; affected with heaves.
  • wind-screen — windshield.
  • windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
  • windbreaker — A wind -resistant jacket with a close-fitting neck, waistband, and cuffs.
  • windcheater — a lightweight jacket for sports or other outdoor wear.
  • windjammers — Plural form of windjammer.
  • windlestrae — thin or weak-looking
  • windlestraw — a withered stalk of any of various grasses.
  • windscreens — Plural form of windscreen.
  • windsor tie — a wide, soft necktie of black silk, tied at the neck in a loose bow.
  • windsurfing — a form of sailing in which a flexible sail, free to move in any direction, is mounted on a surfboard and the craft guided by the standing rider.
  • wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
  • wire-drawer — a machine for drawing metal into wire
  • wire-guided — (of a missile) controlled by signals transmitted through fine wires uncoiled during the missile's flight
  • wire-haired — having coarse, stiff, wirelike hair.
  • wire-rimmed — (of spectacles) having thin wirelike metal frames
  • wisecracked — Simple past tense and past participle of wisecrack.
  • 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.
  • witchdoctor — Alternative form of witch doctor.
  • withdrawals — Plural form of withdrawal.
  • withdrawing — Present participle of withdraw.
  • withindoors — into or inside the house.
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