11-letter words containing w, c, l
- social wasp — any of several wasps, as the hornets or yellowjackets, that live together in a community.
- social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- straw color — a pale yellow similar to the color of straw.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
- tower block — a high-rise building.
- trackwalker — a person employed to walk over and inspect a certain section of railroad track at intervals.
- tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
- trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- twelve-inch — a phonograph record twelve inches in diameter, especially one with two or more remixes of the same song.
- two o'clock — 2 P.M., 1400 hours, 2 in the afternoon
- two old cat — one old cat played with two batters.
- unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
- unwelcoming — not friendly, hostile
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wall socket — socket (def 2b).
- wallaceburg — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
- wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
- warchalking — the practice of marking chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where local wireless internet connections may be obtained for free via a computer, usually without permission
- watch-glass — a curved glass disc that covers the dial of a watch
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- water cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
- watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
- watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
- watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
- web crawler — (sometimes initial capital letter) a computer program that retrieves data from a website, as in order to index web pages for a search engine.
- welcome mat — a doormat, especially one with the word “welcome” printed on it.
- welcomeness — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well-chosen — chosen with care, as for suitability or preciseness: He entered at a well-chosen moment.
- well-cooked — having been cooked with skill so as to be pleasant to eat
- well-copied — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- well-placed — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- well-priced — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
- weltschmerz — sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life; sentimental pessimism.
- welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.