11-letter words containing w, e, d
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- swivel-eyed — having or displaying extreme or fanatical views
- sword dance — any of various dances, usually performed by men, in which swords are ceremonially flourished or are laid on the ground and danced around.
- swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
- tae kwon do — a Korean martial art, a particularly aggressive form of karate, that utilizes punches, jabs, chops, blocking and choking moves, and especially powerful, leaping kicks.
- the swedish — the people of Sweden collectively
- the tynwald — the Parliament of the Isle of Man, consisting of the crown, lieutenant governor, House of Keys, and legislative council
- the windies — the international cricket team of the West Indies
- the wounded — persons wounded, esp. in warfare
- thimbleweed — any of several plants having a thimble-shaped fruiting head, especially either of two white-flowered North American plants, Anemone riparia or A. virginiana.
- third wheel — odd person out among three people
- thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
- thitherward — Also, thitherward [thith -er-werd, th ith -] /ˈθɪð ər wərd, ˈðɪð-/ (Show IPA), thitherwards. to or toward that place or point; there.
- throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
- throw shade — to make a public show of contempt
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- tig welding — tungsten-electrode inert gas welding: a method of welding in which the arc is maintained by a tungsten electrode and shielded from the access of air by an inert gas
- to the wide — completely
- trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
- tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
- tread water — to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
- trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- twaite shad — a European shad
- twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
- twelfthtide — the season of Twelfth Night and Twelfth Day.
- twenty-fold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
- twin-bedded — A twin-bedded room has two single beds.
- twofoldness — the quality or state of being twofold
- 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.
- unpathwayed — unpathed, pathless
- unrewarding — affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like; worthwhile.
- unswallowed — not swallowed
- unsweetened — to make sweet, as by adding sugar.
- unterwalden — a canton in central Switzerland: divided into demicantons.
- unwandering — not wandering or roving, remaining in one place