11-letter words containing w, a, k
- spatterwork — a method of decorating whereby ink or another fluid is spattered over a medium
- spokeswoman — a woman who speaks for another person or for a group.
- stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
- sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
- 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.
- swan's neck — a shallow S-curve used in decorative work.
- swan-necked — having a neck that is long and elegant like that of a swan
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- sweepstakes — a sweepstakes.
- swiss steak — a thick slice of steak dredged in flour and pounded, browned, and braised with tomatoes, onions, and other vegetables.
- szymanowski — Karol [kah-rawl] /ˈkɑ rɔl/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1937, Polish composer.
- tae kwon do — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
- take a walk — 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.
- thankworthy — deserving gratitude.
- trackwalker — a person employed to walk over and inspect a certain section of railroad track at intervals.
- train wreck — an accident in which a train or trains are severely damaged.
- unawakening — not characterized by wakefulness
- 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.
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
- wacky baccy — cannabis or marijuana
- wage packet — regular pay from an employer
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
- wakeboarder — someone who rides a wakeboard
- wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- wakey-wakey — used for telling someone that they should wake up or should pay attention
- walk on air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- 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.
- 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.
- walkability — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
- walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
- walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- walky-talky — walkie-talkie.
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wall socket — socket (def 2b).
- warchalking — the practice of marking chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where local wireless internet connections may be obtained for free via a computer, usually without permission
- warlikeness — the state of being warlike
- warriorlike — Like a warrior.
- wasim akram — Chaudhry. born 1966, Pakistani cricketer: a fast bowler, he played in 104 test matches (1984–2002), 25 as captain, and took 414 wickets
- wastebasket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
- watchmaking — The making (and repairing) of watches.
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- water snake — any of numerous and widely distributed harmless snakes of the genus Natrix, inhabiting areas in or near fresh water.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- watermarked — Simple past tense and past participle of watermark.
- waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
- weak ending — a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that would not be stressed in natural utterance, as a preposition, the object of which is carried over to the next line.
- weak safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
- weak sister — a vacillating person; coward.