11-letter words containing w, e, g, n
- water wings — an inflatable contrivance shaped like a pair of wings, usually worn under the arms to keep the body afloat while one swims or learns to swim.
- waterskiing — Alternative spelling of water skiing.
- wave energy — energy obtained by harnessing wave power
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- weak ending — a verse ending in which the metrical stress falls on a word or syllable that would not be stressed in natural utterance, as a preposition, the object of which is carried over to the next line.
- web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
- wedding day — the day of a wedding.
- weekend bag — weekender (def 3).
- weekendings — weekends during which one goes away from home
- weeping ivy — a climbing plant, Ficus benjamina, of the fig family, grown as a greenhouse or house plant for its graceful glossy leaves on slender drooping branches
- weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
- weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
- weightiness — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
- weingartner — (Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
- welding rod — filler metal supplied in the form of a rod, usually coated with flux
- well design — Well design is the features that are considered when planning and constructing a well.
- well enough — sufficiently
- wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
- wellsprings — Plural form of wellspring.
- 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).
- west german — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- west orange — a town in NE New Jersey, near Newark.
- west riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, England.
- west-facing — orientated towards the west
- whangdoodle — a fanciful creature of undefined nature.
- wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
- whimperings — Plural form of whimpering.
- whisperings — Plural form of whispering.
- white night — a sleepless night.
- whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- whoremonger — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
- wiggle nail — a fastener consisting of a piece of corrugated sheet steel with one wavy edge sharpened, for uniting two pieces of wood, as in a miter joint.
- wild ginger — any of various plants belonging to the genus Asarum, of the birthwort family, especially A. canadense, a woodland plant of eastern North America, having two heart-shaped leaves, a solitary reddish-brown flower, and a pungent rhizome.
- wild orange — laurel cherry.
- willingness — disposed or consenting; inclined: willing to go along.
- wind energy — wind power.
- windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- wine gallon — a former English gallon of 160 fluid ounces: equal to the present U.S. standard gallon of 128 fluid ounces.
- wine grower — a person who owns or works in a vineyard and winery.
- wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
- winegrowing — the work or business of a winegrower.
- winetasting — a gathering of critics, buyers, friends, etc., to taste a group of wines for comparative purposes.
- wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
- wing-footed — having winged feet.
- winged bean — a tropical Asian vine, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, of the legume family, of which the pods, seeds, leaves, and flowers are edible and nutritious.
- winnipegger — a city in and the capital of Manitoba, in S Canada, on the Red River.
- wintergreen — Also called checkerberry. a small, creeping, evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens, of the heath family, common in eastern North America, having white, nodding, bell-shaped flowers, a bright-red, berrylike fruit, and aromatic leaves that yield a volatile oil.