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

  • greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
  • greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
  • great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
  • great wheel — the wheel immediately driven by the power source.
  • great world — fashionable society and its way of life
  • greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
  • grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
  • grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
  • gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
  • groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
  • ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
  • groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • growth area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
  • growth rate — increase per unit
  • guardswoman — A female guardsman.
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
  • gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
  • handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
  • handwriting — writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
  • handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
  • hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
  • hardworking — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
  • harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
  • jawdropping — Alternative form of jaw-dropping.
  • kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
  • lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
  • large white — a large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • leg warmers — a set of coverings for the legs, worn for warmth or, as by dancers rehearsing, to prevent leg cramps
  • lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
  • light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
  • long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
  • microwaving — Present participle of microwave.
  • new georgia — a group of islands in the Solomon Islands.
  • new granada — a former Spanish viceroyalty in NW South America, comprising the present republics of Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • orangewoman — a female member of the Orangemen
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • overdrawing — Present participle of overdraw.
  • paperweight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • pre-warning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • 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
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