11-letter words containing t, w, i, r
- 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).
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- forty winks — a short nap.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- growth ring — annual ring.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
- handwriting — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
- handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- highwrought — extremely worked-up or excited
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- hot working — Hot working is a process in which a metal is shaped under pressure at a fairly high temperature.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- in the wars — (esp of a child) hurt or knocked about, esp as a result of quarrelling and fighting
- interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
- intergrowth — growth or growing together, as of one thing with or into another.
- intertwined — Twist or twine together.
- intertwines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intertwine.
- interviewed — Simple past tense and past participle of interview.
- interviewee — a person who is interviewed.
- interviewer — a person who interviews.
- interweaved — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
- interweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interweave.
- irish tweed — a sturdy woolen fabric of light warp and dark filling, made in Ireland and used in suits and coats.
- ivory tower — a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower.
- ivory-white — of a creamy or yellowish white in color.
- jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
- kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc
- kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
- kite winder — a triangular winder on a staircase.
- large white — a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
- light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
- limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.