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

  • reawakening — rousing; quickening: an awakening interest in ballet.
  • remand wing — a special area within a prison for prisoners who are awaiting trial
  • rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
  • scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
  • screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
  • sewage farm — a place where sewage is treated, esp for use as manure
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
  • snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
  • software ag — (company)   A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • stage screw — a large, tapered screw fitted with a handle, used to secure braces for scenery to the floor of a stage.
  • steerageway — sufficient speed to permit a vessel to be maneuvered.
  • straightway — straightaway.
  • strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
  • swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
  • swearing in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
  • swearing-in — an official ceremony where a person takes an oath of office, allegiance, etc.
  • sweet grass — any of several fragrant plants, as manna grass or the sweet flag.
  • swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
  • switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
  • sword grass — any of various grasses or plants having swordlike or sharp leaves, as the sword lily.
  • the wagoner — Auriga
  • thoroughwax — an umbelliferous plant with yellow flowers and perfoliate leaves, Bupleurum rotundifolium
  • through way — a way that traffic or vehicles can pass through
  • 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
  • tower wagon — a trailer carrying an extensible ladder for use in firefighting, photography, repairing overhead wires, trimming trees, etc. Compare cherry picker (def 2).
  • tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
  • unrewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
  • unwandering — not wandering or roving, remaining in one place
  • vinegarweed — a plant, Trichostema lanceolatum, of the mint family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having clusters of blue flowers with long, protruding filaments and growing in dry, sandy soil.
  • wading bird — wader (def 2).
  • wage earner — a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.
  • wage freeze — earnings fixed at current amount
  • wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
  • wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
  • 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
  • wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
  • waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
  • waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
  • walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
  • wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
  • wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
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