11-letter words containing u, a, w
- show around — guide round a new place
- south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru
- southwardly — toward the south
- square away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- square wave — a graph, function, vibration, etc., that is periodic and equal to one constant on one half of the period and a different constant, which may be zero, on the other half.
- square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- statute law — statutory law.
- stunt woman — a woman who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
- superlawyer — an extremely successful lawyer
- superweapon — an extremely powerful weapon
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
- swan-upping — the taking up of young swans to mark them with nicks on the beak for identification.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- thoroughwax — an umbelliferous plant with yellow flowers and perfoliate leaves, Bupleurum rotundifolium
- through way — a way that traffic or vehicles can pass through
- throw about — to spend (one's money) in a reckless and flaunting manner
- tongues wag — If tongues are wagging, people are talking a lot about someone and their behaviour.
- tundra swan — a swan, Cygnus columbianus, nesting in tundra regions of both the New and Old Worlds, having a black bill with a yellow spot at the base.
- unallowable — not allowable; unacceptable or inadmissible
- unawakening — not characterized by wakefulness
- unawareness — not aware or conscious; unconscious: to be unaware of any change.
- under watch — If someone is being kept under watch, they are being guarded or observed all the time.
- under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- under-drawn — to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.
- unix wizard — (job) Someone with a deep understanding of Unix. See wizard.
- unpathwayed — unpathed, pathless
- unrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- unrewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
- unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- unswallowed — not swallowed
- unterwalden — a canton in central Switzerland: divided into demicantons.
- unwandering — not wandering or roving, remaining in one place
- unwarranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- unweariable — incapable of wearying or being wearied; tireless
- unweariably — in an unweariable manner
- unweathered — not weathered; not changed by exposure to the weather
- unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
- unwoundable — incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed
- up and down — moving in or related to a direction that is up or is regarded as up: the up elevator; the up train traveling north; the up platform of a railroad station.
- up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- up-and-down — moving alternately up and down: the up-and-down swing of levers; an up-and-down tune.
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- wagon vault — barrel vault.
- wait around — If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
- wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- walk out on — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.