11-letter words containing w, e, a
- bamboo ware — a cane-colored Wedgwood stoneware of c1770 imitating bamboo.
- barbed wire — Barbed wire is strong wire with sharp points sticking out of it, and is used to make fences.
- barley wine — an exceptionally strong beer
- barter away — to give or trade for too small a return
- bartholomew — one of the twelve apostles (Matthew 10:3). Feast day: Aug 24 or June 11
- basketweave — a weave of two or more yarns together, resembling that of a basket, esp in wool or linen fabric
- batter down — If you batter a door down, you hit it so hard that it falls to pieces.
- battlewagon — a battleship
- bawdy house — a brothel.
- bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
- beach towel — a large towel used on the beach
- beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
- bean weevil — any of various beetles of the family Bruchidae (or Lariidae), the larvae of which live in the seeds of leguminous plants
- beat hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- beaver away — If you are beavering away at something, you are working very hard at it.
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- benchwarmer — a player who is usually on the bench; reserve
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- berlin wall — a wall dividing the east and west sectors of Berlin, built in 1961 by the East German authorities to stop the flow of refugees from east to west; demolition of the wall began in 1989
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- bio-warfare — biological warfare.
- black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
- black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
- bladderworm — cysticercus
- bladderwort — any aquatic plant of the genus Utricularia, some of whose leaves are modified as small bladders to trap minute aquatic animals: family Lentibulariaceae
- blameworthy — deserving disapproval or censure
- blanketweed — a type of filamentous pond algae
- blaze a way — to pioneer, set a direction or course, etc.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- body warmer — a sleeveless type of jerkin, usually quilted, worn as an outer garment for extra warmth
- bone marrow — Bone marrow is the soft fatty substance inside human or animal bones.
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- brake wheel — (in a windmill) a bevel gearwheel rotating with the wind shaft.
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breadwinner — The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things.
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- bridal wear — clothes specially designed for brides
- bridewealth — (in some nonindustrial societies) the money or goods given to the family of a bride by the bridegroom or his family.
- bridgewater — a town in E Massachusetts.
- brow antler — the first prong from the base of a stag's antler.
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll