11-letter words containing w, a, n, i
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- widow woman — a widow.
- wiggle nail — a fastener consisting of a piece of corrugated sheet steel with one wavy edge sharpened, for uniting two pieces of wood, as in a miter joint.
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- wilkes land — a coastal region of Antarctica, S of Australia.
- willimantic — a city in NE Connecticut.
- willow wand — a slender stick or rod made of willow used especially in magic or divination
- winckelmann — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian.
- wind-shaken — affected by windshake.
- windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- windbreaker — A wind -resistant jacket with a close-fitting neck, waistband, and cuffs.
- windcheater — a lightweight jacket for sports or other outdoor wear.
- windjammers — Plural form of windjammer.
- windjamming — Excessive talking; loquaciousness.
- windlestrae — thin or weak-looking
- windlestraw — a withered stalk of any of various grasses.
- windom peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,082 feet (4292 meters).
- window back — woodwork, especially paneling, beneath the stool of a window.
- window sash — the frame holding the pane of a window.
- window seat — a seat built beneath the sill of a recessed or other window.
- windowpanes — Plural form of windowpane.
- wine cellar — a cellar for the storage of wine.
- wine gallon — a former English gallon of 160 fluid ounces: equal to the present U.S. standard gallon of 128 fluid ounces.
- wine waiter — a waiter in a restaurant who is responsible for serving wine
- wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
- winetasting — a gathering of critics, buyers, friends, etc., to taste a group of wines for comparative purposes.
- wing collar — a stand-up collar having the front edges or corners folded down, worn by men for formal or evening dress.
- winged bean — a tropical Asian vine, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, of the legume family, of which the pods, seeds, leaves, and flowers are edible and nutritious.
- winnability — a capacity for winning or being won
- winter oats — oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter park — a city in E Florida.
- wire agency — a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.
- wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
- witenagemot — the assembly of the witan; the national council attended by the king, aldermen, bishops, and nobles.
- with a bang — begin, end: in a dramatic way
- with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- withdrawing — Present participle of withdraw.
- within call — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- withstander — A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
- womanliness — like or befitting a woman; feminine; not masculine or girlish.
- woodcarving — the art or technique of carving objects by hand from wood or of carving decorations into wood.
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- workmanlike — like or befitting a workman.
- workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
- workstation — a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
- writing pad — a book containing pieces of paper for you to write on
- yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
- zinnwaldite — a yellow-brown variety of mica containing iron, found with tin ores.