11-letter words containing r, w
- bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
- bastard-saw — plain-saw.
- batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
- beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
- belowground — underground
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- bench screw — a wooden or metal screw rotated by a handle fixed to one end within a threaded block fixed to a workbench: used with various jaws to form a vise.
- benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- berlin wall — a wall dividing the east and west sectors of Berlin, built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989
- berlin wool — a fine wool yarn used for tapestry work, etc
- bewhiskered — having whiskers on the cheeks
- bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- bidding war — a situation in which multiple offerers bid to own a single property
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- bio-warfare — biological warfare.
- birthweight — the weight of an infant at birth.
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- bittersweet — If you describe an experience as bittersweet, you mean that it has some happy aspects and some sad ones.
- black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
- black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
- black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- bleed screw — A bleed screw is a type of tap or valve that helps to drain a hydraulic system, such as a brake system.
- bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
- bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
- book review — a description and analysis of a new book
- bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
- bow trolley — See under trolley (def 4).
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- bragg's law — the principle that when a beam of X-rays of wavelength λ enters a crystal, the maximum intensity of the reflected ray occurs when sin θ = nλ/2d, where θ is the complement of the angle of incidence, n is a whole number, and d is the distance between layers of atoms
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridge view — a town in NE Illinois.
- bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.