11-letter words containing t, w, e
- elsewhither — Somewhither else; to some other place; in some other direction.
- embowelment — a disembowelment
- 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.
- entwinement — A situation of being entwined; an entanglement.
- 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.
- fifth wheel — a horizontal ring or segment of a ring, consisting of two bands that slide on each other, placed above the front axle of a carriage and designed to support the forepart of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane.
- fillet weld — a weld with a triangular cross section joining two surfaces that meet in an interior right angle.
- 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).
- fixed-width — record
- flake white — lead white.
- 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.
- galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
- gentlewomen — Plural form of gentlewoman.
- george town — Also, George Town. a seaport in and the capital of the state of Penang, in NW Malaysia.
- get down to — start
- get in with — start to associate with
- get nowhere — make no progress
- get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- get wise to — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- get with it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- 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
- give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- go to waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- 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