11-letter words containing s, w
- windlestraw — a withered stalk of any of various grasses.
- window sash — the frame holding the pane of a window.
- window seat — a seat built beneath the sill of a recessed or other window.
- window-shop — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- windowpanes — Plural form of windowpane.
- windows 3.0 — (operating system) A complete rework of Microsoft Windows with many new facilities such as the ability to address memory beyond 640k. It was released in 1990, and vigorous development of applications by third parties helped Microsoft sell over 10 million copies.
- windows 3.1 — (operating system) A version of Microsoft Windows with many improvements over Windows 3.0, including True Type Fonts, Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and Mouse Trails for use with LCD Devices. It also saw the loss of Real Mode, which meant it would no longer run on Intel 8086 processors (did anyone ever do this anyway?). Sometimes described as "stand-alone Windows", in contrast to Windows for Workgroups 3.1. Windows 3.11 is a free bug-fix update. 3.1's successors are Windows 95 and Windows NT.
- 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.
- windscreens — Plural form of windscreen.
- windshields — Plural form of windshield.
- 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.
- wineberries — Plural form of wineberry.
- wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
- winepresses — Plural form of winepress.
- winetasting — a gathering of critics, buyers, friends, etc., to taste a group of wines for comparative purposes.
- winsomeness — The quality of being winsome.
- winter oats — oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter rose — Christmas rose.
- wintercress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
- winterishly — In a way that is characteristic of winter.
- winterkills — Plural form of winterkill.
- winterreise — a song cycle (1827) by Franz Schubert, consisting of 24 songs set to poems of Wilhelm Müller.
- wintersweet — a shrub, Chimonanthus praecox, native to China, having large leaves and fragrant yellow flowers.
- wire-stitch — to stitch (the backs of gathered sections) by means of a machine that automatically forms staples from a continuous reel of wire.
- wisecracked — Simple past tense and past participle of wisecrack.
- wisecracker — a smart or facetious remark.
- wisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- wishfulness — The state or quality of being wishful; sometimes specifically wishful thinking.
- wishy-washy — lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.
- wistfulness — characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.
- witch grass — a panic grass, Panicum capillare, having a bushlike compound panicle, common as a weed in North America.
- witchcrafts — Plural form of witchcraft.
- with a rush — suddenly and forcefully
- with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- withdrawals — Plural form of withdrawal.
- withershins — 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.
- witherspoon — John, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
- withindoors — into or inside the house.
- withstander — A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
- witlessness — lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.
- witness box — witness stand.
- witness-box — witness stand.
- 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.