11-letter words containing w, e, i
- fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
- fixed-width — record
- flake white — lead white.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
- floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
- flowingness — the quality of being flowing
- fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- foreshowing — Present participle of foreshow.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- freewriting — a free and unstructured style of writing
- friendswood — a city in SE Texas.
- fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- get in with — start to associate with
- get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- get wise to — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- get with it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- ginger wine — an alcoholic drink made from fermented bruised ginger, sugar, and water
- give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- goosewinged — (of a square sail) having the lee clew furled while the weather clew is held taut.
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- grey willow — a species of willow, Salix cinerea, with greenish-grey catkins
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- gripe water — a solution given to infants to relieve colic
- ground wire — a lead from an electric apparatus to the earth or to a ground connection.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- guided wave — a wave the energy of which is concentrated near a boundary or between parallel boundaries separating different materials and that has a direction of propagation parallel to these boundaries.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- hack writer — a writer of undistinguished literary work produced to order
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- hairweaving — the attachment of matching hair to a base of nylon thread interwoven with a person's own hair, as to cover a bald area or to add length: Three of the makeovers involved hairweaving.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.