11-letter words containing s, w, a, t
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- watt-second — a unit of energy equal to the energy of one watt acting for one second; the equivalent of one joule.
- wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- way station — a station intermediate between principal stations, as on a railroad.
- weak safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
- weak sister — a vacillating person; coward.
- wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- weathercast — a forecast of weather conditions, especially on radio or television.
- weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
- weathermost — (nautical) Farthest to the windward side.
- weatherwise — (domain) With respect to the weather.
- websquatter — A person or company that engages in websquatting.
- weierstrass — Karl Theodor [kahrl tey-oh-dawr] /kɑrl ˈteɪ oʊˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1815–97, German mathematician.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well-seated — something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- well-stated — fixed or settled: a stated price.
- welsh vault — underpitch vault.
- welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
- wentletraps — Plural form of wentletrap.
- west africa — most westerly part of Africa
- west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- west covina — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- west german — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- west helena — a city in E Arkansas.
- west indian — (used with a plural verb). Also called the Indies. an archipelago in the N Atlantic between North and South America, comprising the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
- west jordan — a town in N central Utah.
- west orange — a town in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
- west seneca — a city in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- west-facing — orientated towards the west
- westermarck — Edward Alexander [ed-werd al-ig-zan-der,, -zahn-;; Finnish ed-vahrd ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈɛd wərd ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər,, -ˈzɑn-;; Finnish ˈɛd vɑrd ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1939, Finnish sociologist.
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wet compass — a compass having a compass card floating in a liquid.
- wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
- what's more — in addition
- what's what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
- wheat sheaf — a sheaf of wheat
- whereabouts — about where? where?
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
- whit sunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
- white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
- white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
- white shark — great white shark.
- white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
- white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
- white toast — toasted white bread