11-letter words containing w, a, s
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
- brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
- brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
- brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
- casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
- cattywampus — catawampus
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chuckwallas — Plural form of chuckwalla.
- churchwards — in the direction of the church
- clean sweep — an overwhelming victory
- coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
- compass saw — a hand saw with a narrow tapered blade for making a curved cut
- contraflows — Plural form of contraflow.
- cotton swab — A cotton swab is the same as a swab.
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- cow parsnip — any tall coarse umbelliferous plant of the genus Heracleum, such as H. sphondylium of Europe and Asia, having thick stems and flattened clusters of white or purple flowers
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- craftswoman — A craftswoman is a woman who makes things skilfully with her hands.
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
- 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.
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crown roast — a roast consisting of ribs of lamb or pork arranged in a crown shape
- cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element