11-letter words containing w, a, n
- 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.
- wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
- wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
- wand reader — wand (def 6).
- wand-reader — a slender stick or rod, especially one used by a magician, conjurer, or diviner.
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
- wang an shi — 1021–86, Chinese statesman and writer: remembered for his economic reforms, known as the New Policies (1069–76)
- waning moon — the moon at any time after full moon and before new moon (so called because its illuminated area is decreasing).
- 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.
- 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
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
- warlikeness — the state of being warlike
- warm spring — a thermal spring having a temperature of up to 98°F (37°C).
- warming pan — a long-handled, covered pan, usually of brass, filled with live coals or hot water for warming a cold bed.
- warmongerer — Misspelling of warmonger.
- warrantable — capable of being warranted.
- warrantably — In a way that is justified; reasonably.
- warrantless — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- warrantying — an act or an instance of warranting; assurance; authorization; warrant.
- warrensburg — a town in central Missouri.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
- washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
- waspishness — The quality of being waspish.
- 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.
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- water inlet — opening designed to let water in
- water lemon — yellow granadilla.
- water nymph — a nymph of the water, as a naiad, a Nereid, or an Oceanid.