11-letter words containing w, c
- whacked-out — tired; exhausted; worn-out.
- whale watch — trip to observe sea mammals
- whalesucker — a large, blue remora, Remora australis, that attaches itself to whales and dolphins.
- wheel brace — a tool used to loosen or tighten the nuts holding a vehicle's wheel in place
- wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.
- wheel cover — a fancy cover for the wheels of motor vehicles: larger than a hubcap
- wheelchairs — Plural form of wheelchair.
- whenceforth — from which time or place forward
- whichsoever — Whichever.
- whimsically — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
- whiskeyjack — (US) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
- white bacon — bacon (def 2).
- white birch — the European birch, Betula pendula, yielding a hard wood.
- white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
- white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
- white magic — magic used for good purposes, especially to counteract evil (contrasted with black magic).
- white perch — a small game fish, Morone americana, greenish-gray above and silvery below, inhabiting streams along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
- 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.
- white stick — a walking stick used by a blind person for feeling the way: painted white as a sign to others that the person is blind
- white stock — a stock of veal bones, vegetables, herbs, and seasonings: used as the basis for sauces and soups.
- white witch — a witch who uses magic for benevolent purposes or without malicious intent
- white-faced — having a white or pale face.
- whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
- whole cloth — pure fabrication: fiction, invention
- wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
- wide-screen — of, noting, or pertaining to motion pictures projected on a screen having greater width than height, usually in a ratio of 1 to 2.5.
- widechapped — open-mouthed
- wilberforce — William, 1759–1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.
- wild carrot — an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, of temperate regions, having clusters of white flowers and hooked fruits
- wild celery — tape grass.
- wildcatters — Plural form of wildcatter.
- wildcrafter — One who takes part in wildcraft.
- willimantic — a city in NE Connecticut.
- willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
- winckelmann — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian.
- wind chimes — mobile that makes a tinkling sound
- wind-screen — windshield.
- windcheater — a lightweight jacket for sports or other outdoor wear.
- window back — woodwork, especially paneling, beneath the stool of a window.
- windscreens — Plural form of windscreen.
- wine bucket — A wine bucket is a container that holds ice cubes or cold water and ice. You can use it to put bottles of wine in and keep the wine cool.
- wine cellar — a cellar for the storage of wine.
- wine cooler — a bucket for holding ice to chill a bottle of wine.
- wing collar — a stand-up collar having the front edges or corners folded down, worn by men for formal or evening dress.
- wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
- wintercress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
- wire agency — a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.
- wire cutter — any of various devices designed to cut wire.
- wire-stitch — to stitch (the backs of gathered sections) by means of a machine that automatically forms staples from a continuous reel of wire.