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11-letter words containing u, a, w

  • furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
  • gauze weave — leno (def 1).
  • ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
  • groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • guardswoman — A female guardsman.
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
  • guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
  • gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
  • hum and haw — If you hem and haw, or in British English hum and haw, you take a long time to say something because you cannot think of the right words, or because you are not sure what to say.
  • if you want — as you please
  • include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
  • jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
  • joule's law — the principle that the rate of production of heat by a constant direct current is directly proportional to the resistance of the circuit and to the square of the current.
  • knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.
  • labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
  • lacquerware — Articles that have a decorative lacquer coating, viewed collectively.
  • lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
  • laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
  • law faculty — the department or division of a university concerned with teaching law
  • law student — sb who studies legal system
  • leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
  • low-quality — substandard; of inferior quality: It’s hard to make a delicious dish when you start with low-quality ingredients. Repairs made with low-quality parts are cheaper, but they won’t last long.
  • luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
  • manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
  • medium wave — Medium wave is a range of radio waves which are used for broadcasting.
  • milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • mu'awiyah i — ?602–680 ad, first caliph (661–80) of the Omayyad dynasty of Damascus; regarded as having secularized the caliphate
  • mural crown — a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
  • musical saw — a handsaw played as a musical instrument with a violin bow or a hammer while the saw is bent with varying tension to change the pitch.
  • musk mallow — Also called musk rose. a European mallow, Malva moschata, introduced into North America, having musk-scented white or lavender flowers.
  • natural law — a principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society.
  • nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
  • now account — Banking. a savings account against which checks can be written.
  • ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
  • part way up — some way towards the summit
  • 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.
  • polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
  • put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
  • put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • rule of law — the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law.
  • saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
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