11-letter words containing w, e, b, a
- wastebasket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
- water brash — heartburn (def 1).
- water table — the planar, underground surface beneath which earth materials, as soil or rock, are saturated with water.
- water-borne — A water-borne disease or infection is one that people can catch from infected water.
- wattlebirds — Plural form of wattlebird.
- wave number — the number of waves in one centimeter of light in a given wavelength; the reciprocal of the wavelength.
- waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Menophra abruptaria, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
- wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
- weatherable — able to withstand the effects of weather
- weaverbirds — Plural form of weaverbird.
- web address — Computers. URL (def 2).
- 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.
- websquatter — A person or company that engages in websquatting.
- weekend bag — weekender (def 3).
- weldability — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- well-beaten — formed or shaped by blows; hammered: a dish of beaten brass.
- welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
- west bengal — a state in E India: formerly part of the province of Bengal. 33,805 sq. mi. (87,555 sq. km). Capital: Calcutta. Compare Bengal (def 1).
- wet blanket — person: spoilsport
- wet-blanket — to extinguish (a fire) with a wet blanket.
- wettability — the condition of being wettable.
- wheat berry — the whole kernel of wheat, sometimes cracked or ground and used as a cereal or cooked food, or made into bread.
- wheat bread — a type of bread that consists of a mixture of enriched white flour and whole-wheat flour.
- wheel brace — a tool used to loosen or tighten the nuts holding a vehicle's wheel in place
- wheelbarrow — a frame or box for conveying a load, supported at one end by a wheel or wheels, and lifted and pushed at the other by two horizontal shafts.
- whereabouts — about where? where?
- whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
- white bacon — bacon (def 2).
- white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
- white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
- white-bread — pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
- wife-beater — a person who hits his or her wife
- wiffle ball — a hollow plastic baseball, one side of which is perforated to enable the pitching of various types of curveball: used in an informal variation of baseball
- windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- windbreaker — A wind -resistant jacket with a close-fitting neck, waistband, and cuffs.
- winged bean — a tropical Asian vine, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, of the legume family, of which the pods, seeds, leaves, and flowers are edible and nutritious.
- wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
- wonderbread — (pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.
- woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
- work basket — a basket for holding sewing equipment
- workbaskets — Plural form of workbasket.
- worldbeater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- worry beads — a string of beads manipulated to relieve worry and tension.
- worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.