11-letter words containing t, w, e, r
- easter week — the week that begins with Easter Day and ends the following Saturday
- electroweak — combining both the electromagnetic and weak forces or interactions
- elsewhither — Somewhither else; to some other place; in some other direction.
- embowerment — the act of embowering
- empowerment — The granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group.
- entranceway — A way into a place or thing, esp. a doorway or corridor at the entrance to a building.
- equatorward — toward the equator
- fairweather — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 15,292 feet (4660 meters).
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fast worker — a person who is quick and shrewd in gaining personal advantage: A fast worker, he soon knew everyone who had any pull.
- fiesta ware — molded, opaque-glazed earthenware produced in a wide range of colors from 1936 to 1969.
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- freewriting — a free and unstructured style of writing
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
- front vowel — a vowel sound produced with the tongue in a position near the front of the mouth, such as the 'a' in 'at' or the 'e' in bed
- frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- george town — Also, George Town. a seaport in and the capital of the state of Penang, in NW Malaysia.
- get nowhere — make no progress
- getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
- great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
- great world — fashionable society and its way of life
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- growth area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
- growth cone — a flattened area at the end of a growing axon or dendrite, having radiating filopodia and lemellopodia that function as guides for the outgrowth of embryonic nerve fibers.
- growth rate — increase per unit
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- hawes water — a lake in NW England, in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply; extended by damming from 4 km (2.5 miles) to 6 km (4 miles)
- head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- head-waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heart-water — a tick-borne disease of cattle, sheep, and goats characterized by fluid accumulation in the pericardial sac. It is caused by the organism Rickettsia ruminantium
- heart-whole — not in love.
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.