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11-letter words containing w, e, i, r, t

  • pre-written — a past participle of write.
  • private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • prizeworthy — deserving or qualified for a prize: a prizeworthy performance.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • reinterview — to interview or question again
  • rent review — a provision in the lease of a business premise whereby the amount of the rent being paid is reconsidered at stated intervals, for example every three or five years
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • riverworthy — (of a boat) able to cross or sail a river safely
  • sacred writ — Scripture.
  • saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • 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
  • shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • sign writer — someone whose job is to produce signs for businesses
  • silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
  • slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
  • somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • still water — a part of a stream that is level or where the level of inclination is so slight that no current is visible.
  • storywriter — a person who writes stories, tales, fables, etc.
  • strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
  • sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
  • sweet cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
  • sweet spire — a shrub, Itea virginica, of the eastern and southern U.S., having showy, fragrant, white flowers.
  • swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
  • swingletree — a whiffletree.
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • swipe right — to move a finger from left to right across a touchscreen in order to approve an image
  • switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • therewithal — together with that; in addition to that.
  • therewithin — in or within that
  • third wheel — odd person out among three people
  • 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.
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • tiger prawn — a large edible prawn of the genus Penaeus with dark bands across the body, fished commercially in the Indian and Pacific oceans
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