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11-letter words containing t, w, e

  • peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
  • pennyweight — (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). Abbreviation: dwt, pwt.
  • petah tiqwa — city in WC Israel: pop. 153,000
  • pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • power elite — a closely knit alliance of military, government, and corporate officials perceived as the center of wealth and political power in the U.S.
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • power point — electrical socket
  • power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
  • powerboater — a powerboat owner or operator.
  • pre-written — a past participle of write.
  • private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • prizeworthy — deserving or qualified for a prize: a prizeworthy performance.
  • pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
  • puppet show — an entertainment, as a play or musical revue, in which the performers are puppets.
  • quickwitted — Alternative spelling of quick-witted.
  • quoteworthy — quotable.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • reinterview — to interview or question again
  • rent review — a provision in the lease of a business premise whereby the amount of the rent being paid is reconsidered at stated intervals, for example every three or five years
  • resort town — a holiday town
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • riverworthy — (of a boat) able to cross or sail a river safely
  • robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
  • roh tae woo — born 1932, president of South Korea 1988–93.
  • round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
  • rupturewort — a plant, Herniaria glabra, of the pink family
  • sacred writ — Scripture.
  • saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
  • sash weight — a counterweight to a vertically sliding window sash.
  • satin weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are interlaced with the warp at widely separated intervals, producing the effect of an unbroken surface.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • saw-toothed — having pointing resembling the edge of a saw.
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • screenwrite — (language)   A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
  • screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
  • screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
  • self-weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • settle down — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
  • settle with — to pay a debt or bill to
  • seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
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