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11-letter words containing t, w, e

  • breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
  • bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
  • bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
  • brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown betty — a baked apple pudding made with butter, spices, sugar, and bread crumbs
  • brown earth — an intrazonal soil of temperate humid regions typically developed under deciduous forest into a dark rich layer (mull): characteristic of much of southern and central England
  • brown heart — a brown discoloration of the flesh of stored apples, resulting from high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
  • brown water — shallow water, as opposed to deep (blue) water.
  • brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
  • brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
  • bucket down — If the rain buckets down, or if it buckets down with rain, it rains very heavily.
  • bullet wood — the wood of a bully tree.
  • bus network — (networking)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
  • butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • cabinetwood — any wood suitable for use in cabinetwork.
  • cabinetwork — the making of furniture, esp of fine quality
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • cartwheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of cartwheel.
  • cartwheeler — a person who performs cartwheels
  • castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
  • catchweight — of or relating to a contest in which normal weight categories have been waived by agreement
  • caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
  • caterwauler — to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time.
  • cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
  • cattlewoman — A woman who raises or tends cattle.
  • cattlewomen — Plural form of cattlewoman.
  • charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • charityware — careware
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
  • cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
  • china white — a very potent form of synthetic heroin.
  • clear water — a city in W Florida.
  • clock tower — A clock tower is a tall, narrow building with a clock at the top.
  • clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
  • coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
  • cooperstown — a town in central New York: location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
  • copywriters — Plural form of copywriter.
  • cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
  • counterflow — the flowing of two fluids in opposite directions in adjacent parts of an apparatus
  • counterglow — gegenschein.
  • counterview — an opposite or opposing view
  • counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
  • counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
  • countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
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