11-letter words containing w, a, b, l, e
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swallowable — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- swear blind — to assert emphatically
- sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- sweet basil — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
- sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- the beltway — Washington, D.C., esp. as regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics: so called from the expressway around the District of Columbia & nearby areas
- trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
- unallowable — not allowable; unacceptable or inadmissible
- unrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- unweariable — incapable of wearying or being wearied; tireless
- unweariably — in an unweariable manner
- unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
- unwoundable — incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed
- waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
- waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
- walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
- wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
- warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
- warrantable — capable of being warranted.
- water table — the planar, underground surface beneath which earth materials, as soil or rock, are saturated with water.
- wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
- wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
- weatherable — able to withstand the effects of weather
- web crawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- weldability — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- well-beaten — formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- wet blanket — person: spoilsport
- wet-blanket — to extinguish (a fire) with a wet blanket.
- wettability — the condition of being wettable.
- wheel brace — a tool used to loosen or tighten the nuts holding a vehicle's wheel in place
- wheelbarrow — a frame or box for conveying a load, supported at one end by a wheel or wheels, and lifted and pushed at the other by two horizontal shafts.
- whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
- whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
- wiffle ball — a hollow plastic baseball, one side of which is perforated to enable the pitching of various types of curveball: used in an informal variation of baseball
- wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
- woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
- worldbeater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.