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11-letter words containing w, a, n, t, i

  • parataniwha — a New Zealand plant, Elatostema rugosa, with pink and red serrated leaves
  • pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
  • playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
  • ratings war — a situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • satin weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are interlaced with the warp at widely separated intervals, producing the effect of an unbroken surface.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • stanislaw i — (Stanislaw Leszczynski) Stanislaus I.
  • stanislawow — Polish name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • swing state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • switch cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • tangle with — get involved with
  • tawny pipit — a small sandy-brown European bird, Anthus campestris, of the wagtail family; an irregular migrant to some parts of Britain
  • the haywain — a famous picture by John Constable
  • thwartingly — in a thwarting manner; obstructingly
  • tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • to windward — toward the wind; toward the point from which the wind blows.
  • tonic water — drink: carbonated water
  • townscaping — the act of designing a town
  • trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • train wreck — an accident in which a train or trains are severely damaged.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • tweetcation — a short break from posting on the Twitter website
  • vietnam war — a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the U.S., South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam.
  • wagon train — a train of wagons and horses, as one carrying military supplies or transporting settlers in the westward migration.
  • wagonwright — a person who makes wagons
  • wainscoting — wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
  • wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
  • wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
  • wait around — If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
  • waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
  • wallenstein — Also, Waldstein. Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von [ahl-brekht ven-tsuh l oi-zey-bee-oo s fuh n] /ˈɑl brɛxt ˈvɛn tsəl ɔɪˈzeɪ biˌʊs fən/ (Show IPA), Duke of Friedland [freed-land,, -luh nd;; German freet-lahnt] /ˈfridˌlænd,, -lənd;; German ˈfritˌlɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1583–1634, Austrian general in the Thirty Years' War, born in Bohemia.
  • walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
  • wanted list — a list of people being searched for by the police in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • war cabinet — government wartime committee
  • war footing — the condition or status of a military force or other organization when operating under a state of war or as if a state of war existed.
  • warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
  • warrantying — an act or an instance of warranting; assurance; authorization; warrant.
  • wasserstein — Wendy, 1950–2006, U.S. playwright.
  • watch chain — a chain, frequently of gold or silver, attached to a pocket watch, serving as an ornament and, when passed through a buttonhole in the vest, as a guard against loss or theft of the watch.
  • watch night — the last night of the year, observed in a watch meeting.
  • watchmaking — The making (and repairing) of watches.
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