11-letter words containing s, o, l, w
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
- weight loss — slimming
- welcomeness — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- well-chosen — chosen with care, as for suitability or preciseness: He entered at a well-chosen moment.
- well-sorted — (of sedimentary particles) uniform in size.
- well-spoken — speaking well, fittingly, or pleasingly: The new chairwoman was very well-spoken.
- wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
- welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
- welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
- werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- wheedlesome — tending to wheedle
- wheel horse — Also called wheeler. a horse, or one of the horses, harnessed behind others and nearest the front wheels of a vehicle.
- wheelhouses — Plural form of wheelhouse.
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- 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.
- whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesalers — Plural form of wholesaler.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wholesomely — In a wholesome manner.
- wholesomest — Superlative form of wholesome.
- wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
- wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
- willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
- windows 4gl — (tool, database) (INGRES/Windows 4GL) A graphical tool running on top of a workstation's native windowing system, to help developers to build user interfaces to INGRES applications.
- windowsills — Plural form of windowsill.
- wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- 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.
- wolfishness — The quality of being wolfish.
- womanliness — like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
- women's lib — women's liberation: rights
- wonderlands — Plural form of wonderland.
- wood sorrel — any of numerous plants of the genus Oxalis, especially O. acetosella, of Eurasia, having heart-shaped, trifoliolate leaves and white, pink-veined flowers.
- woodswallow — any of several slate-colored songbirds of the family Artamidae, of southeastern Asia, Australia, and New Guinea, having long, pointed wings and noted for their swift, soaring flight.
- wool sponge — a commercial sponge, Hippiospongia lachne, of Florida and the West Indies, the surface of which resembles the fleece of a sheep.
- woolgrowers — Plural form of woolgrower.
- workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
- workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- world music — (sometimes initial capital letters) any of various styles of popular music combining traditional, indigenous forms with elements of another culture's music, especially of Western rock and pop.
- world-class — ranking among the world's best; outstanding: a world-class orchestra.
- worldliness — of or relating to this world as contrasted with heaven, spiritual life, etc.; earthly; mundane.
- worrisomely — In a worrisome way.
- worse luck! — unhappily; unfortunately