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11-letter words containing w, a, t, p

  • swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
  • sweat pants — loose-fitting pants of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, usually with a drawstring at the waist and close-fitting or elastic cuffs at the ankles, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
  • sweepstakes — a sweepstakes.
  • tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • tawny pipit — a small sandy-brown European bird, Anthus campestris, of the wagtail family; an irregular migrant to some parts of Britain
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • townscaping — the act of designing a town
  • two a penny — Things that are said to be two a penny or ten a penny are not valuable or interesting because they are very common and easy to find.
  • unpathwayed — unpathed, pathless
  • up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • wage packet — regular pay from an employer
  • warsaw pact — an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command.
  • watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
  • watchstraps — Plural form of watchstrap.
  • water nymph — a nymph of the water, as a naiad, a Nereid, or an Oceanid.
  • water paint — a pigment, as watercolor, in which water is used as the vehicle.
  • water pipit — a common, sparrow-sized pipit, Anthus spinoletta, of the Northern Hemisphere.
  • water plant — a plant that grows in water.
  • water poppy — a Brazilian, aquatic plant, Hydrocleys nymphoides, having yellow, poppylike flowers.
  • water power — the power of water used, or capable of being used, to drive machinery, turbines, etc.
  • water vapor — a dispersion, in air, of molecules of water, especially as produced by evaporation at ambient temperatures rather than by boiling. Compare steam (def 2).
  • waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
  • waterscapes — Plural form of waterscape.
  • waterspouts — Plural form of waterspout.
  • weather map — a map or chart showing weather conditions over a wide area at a particular time, compiled from simultaneous observations at different places.
  • wentletraps — Plural form of wentletrap.
  • werepanther — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between panther and human form.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • wet compass — a compass having a compass card floating in a liquid.
  • wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
  • whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
  • white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
  • white paper — paper bleached white.
  • white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
  • whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
  • wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
  • winter park — a city in E Florida.
  • wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
  • with a bump — If someone comes down to earth with a bump, they suddenly start recognizing unpleasant facts after a period of time when they have not been doing this.
  • wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
  • wrist plate — a platelike part of a mechanism, oscillating in its own plane, to which links or rods are attached by pins.
  • writing pad — a book containing pieces of paper for you to write on
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