11-letter words containing w, d, r, u
- round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
- show around — guide round a new place
- slumdweller — a person who lives in a slum.
- southwardly — toward the south
- swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
- to run wild — If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
- trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
- tundra swan — a swan, Cygnus columbianus, nesting in tundra regions of both the New and Old Worlds, having a black bill with a yellow spot at the base.
- un-showered — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
- under watch — If someone is being kept under watch, they are being guarded or observed all the time.
- under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- under-drawn — to line the underside of (a structure, as a floor) with plasterwork, boarding, or the like.
- under-weigh — under weigh, Nautical. in motion; under way.
- undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
- underviewer — a person who inspects a mine every day
- underweight — weighing less than is usual, required, or proper.
- underwiring — support provided by an underwire
- underworked — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
- underworker — a person who underworks
- underwriter — a person or company that underwrites policies of insurance or carries on insurance as a business.
- unempowered — to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.
- unix wizard — (job) Someone with a deep understanding of Unix. See wizard.
- unrewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
- unterwalden — a canton in central Switzerland: divided into demicantons.
- unwandering — not wandering or roving, remaining in one place
- unwarranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- unweathered — not weathered; not changed by exposure to the weather
- wait around — If you wait around or wait about, you stay in the same place, usually doing very little, because you cannot act before something happens or before someone arrives.
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- watch guard — a short chain, cord, or ribbon for securing a watch when worn on the person.
- waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Menophra abruptaria, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
- weed cutter — a hand implement, often powered by electricity or a gasoline motor, for cutting weeds or trimming grass and often utilizing a rotating nylon cord as the cutting blade.
- well argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well-argued — to present reasons for or against a thing: He argued in favor of capital punishment.
- well-turned — gracefully shaped: a well-turned ankle.
- wellreputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
- whodunnitry — the style or genre of novels, plays, etc concerned with crime
- wild rubber — rubber obtained from trees growing wild.
- wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
- windsurfing — a form of sailing in which a flexible sail, free to move in any direction, is mounted on a surfboard and the craft guided by the standing rider.
- wire-guided — (of a missile) controlled by signals transmitted through fine wires uncoiled during the missile's flight
- wonder drug — a drug, usually recently discovered or developed, noted for its startling curative effect, as an antibiotic or sulfa drug.
- wonderfully — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wood grouse — the capercaillie.
- wood thrush — a large thrush, Hylocichla mustelina, common in woodlands of eastern North America, and noted for its melodious song.
- woodcutters — Plural form of woodcutter.
- woodturning — The action of shaping wood with a lathe.
- word square — a set of words such that when arranged one beneath another in the form of a square they read alike horizontally and vertically.
- workarounds — Plural form of workaround.
- world court — an international tribunal established under the Covenant of the League of Nations and replaced in 1945 by the International Court of Justice.