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11-letter words containing w, a, k

  • latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
  • law-breaker — A law-breaker is someone who breaks the law.
  • lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
  • 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
  • makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
  • malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
  • manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
  • market town — a town where a regularly scheduled market is held.
  • master-work — masterpiece.
  • masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
  • mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
  • mdewakanton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
  • metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
  • milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
  • musk mallow — Also called musk rose. a European mallow, Malva moschata, introduced into North America, having musk-scented white or lavender flowers.
  • nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • pickwickian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Mr. Pickwick, central character of The Pickwick Papers.
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pillow talk — private conversation, endearments, or confidences exchanged in bed or in intimate circumstances between spouses or lovers.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
  • reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
  • schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
  • shadow mask — a perforated metal sheet mounted close to the phosphor-dotted screen in some colour television tubes. The holes are positioned so that each of the three electron beams strikes the correct phosphor dot producing the required colour mixture in the image
  • shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food
  • shrink-wrap — to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
  • slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
  • sleepwalker — the act or state of walking, eating, or performing other motor acts while asleep, of which one is unaware upon awakening; somnambulism.
  • social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
  • spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
  • sparrowhawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
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