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11-letter words containing w, a, r, e

  • casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
  • caterwauled — Simple past tense and past participle of caterwaul.
  • caterwauler — to utter long wailing cries, as cats in rutting time.
  • cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
  • chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
  • charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • charityware — careware
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
  • clapperclaw — to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
  • claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
  • clear water — a city in W Florida.
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
  • coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
  • cordwainery — Shoemaking.
  • counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
  • cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
  • cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
  • crackleware — porcelain or pottery decorated with intentional crazing in the glaze
  • craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
  • crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
  • credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
  • crimean war — the war fought mainly in the Crimea between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Sardinia, and Britain on the other (1853-56)
  • crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
  • cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
  • crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
  • crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
  • culture war — conflict of values
  • curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
  • dawn raider — a person or company that mounts a dawn raid
  • dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
  • die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • dietary law — law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food.
  • digger wasp — any of numerous solitary wasps of the family Sphecidae, which excavate nests in soil, wood, etc., and provision them with prey paralyzed by stinging.
  • dinnerwares — china, glasses, and silver used for table service.
  • dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
  • down-easter — a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
  • down-market — appealing or catering to lower-income consumers; widely affordable or accessible.
  • downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • downloaders — Plural form of downloader.
  • draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
  • drainageway — a conduit, ditch, or the like, for draining water from an area.
  • draw a line — If you draw a line between two things, you make a distinction between them.
  • draw runner — loper.
  • draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
  • drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
  • drawing pen — a pen with a fine nib used for drawing
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