11-letter words containing w, e, i, r, s
- housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
- ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- in the wars — (esp of a child) hurt or knocked about, esp as a result of quarrelling and fighting
- ingrownness — the quality of having ingrown
- intertwines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intertwine.
- interweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interweave.
- irish tweed — a sturdy woolen fabric of light warp and dark filling, made in Ireland and used in suits and coats.
- ironworkers — Plural form of ironworker.
- jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
- jewelleries — articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment.
- leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- minesweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
- new realism — neorealism.
- news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
- newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- over-sewing — to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, especially closely, so as to cover the edge or make a firm seam.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- rose weevil — Fuller rose beetle.
- rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
- rye whiskey — rye1 (defs 4, 5).
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scissorwise — in a movement or position which imitates scissors
- screenwrite — (language) A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- screwdriver — a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that fits into the slotted head of a screw.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.