11-letter words containing w, e, i
- wineberries — Plural form of wineberry.
- wineglasses — Plural form of wineglass.
- winegrowing — the work or business of a winegrower.
- winepresses — Plural form of winepress.
- 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.
- winsomeness — The quality of being winsome.
- winter moth — a brown geometrid moth, Operophtera brumata, of which the male is often seen against lighted windows in winter, the female being wingless
- winter oats — oats that are planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter park — a city in E Florida.
- winter rose — Christmas rose.
- winter wren — (in the Western Hemisphere) a small wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, of coniferous forests.
- winterberry — any of several North American hollies of the genus Ilex, having red berries that are persistent through the winter.
- wintercress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
- 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.
- winterishly — In a way that is characteristic of winter.
- winterizing — Present participle of winterize.
- winterkills — Plural form of winterkill.
- winterreise — a song cycle (1827) by Franz Schubert, consisting of 24 songs set to poems of Wilhelm Müller.
- wintersweet — a shrub, Chimonanthus praecox, native to China, having large leaves and fragrant yellow flowers.
- wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
- wire agency — a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.
- wire cutter — any of various devices designed to cut wire.
- wire-drawer — a machine for drawing metal into wire
- wire-guided — (of a missile) controlled by signals transmitted through fine wires uncoiled during the missile's flight
- wire-haired — having coarse, stiff, wirelike hair.
- wire-puller — a person or thing that pulls wires.
- wire-rimmed — (of spectacles) having thin wirelike metal frames
- wire-stitch — to stitch (the backs of gathered sections) by means of a machine that automatically forms staples from a continuous reel of wire.
- wirepulling — an act of pulling wires.
- wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
- wireworking — the use of wire to make functional or decorative works
- wisecracked — Simple past tense and past participle of wisecrack.
- wisecracker — a smart or facetious remark.
- wisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- wishfulness — The state or quality of being wishful; sometimes specifically wishful thinking.
- wistfulness — characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.
- witch alder — a shrub, Fothergilla gardenii, of the witch hazel family, native to the southeastern U.S., having spikes of white flowers that bloom before the leaves appear.
- witch hazel — a shrub, Hamamelis virginiana, of eastern North America, having toothed, egg-shaped leaves and small, yellow flowers. Compare witch hazel family.
- witenagemot — the assembly of the witan; the national council attended by the king, aldermen, bishops, and nobles.
- with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- wither away — weaken and die
- witheringly — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- withershins — in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster.
- witherspoon — John, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
- withstander — A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
- witlessness — lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.