11-letter words containing w, e, l, a, d
- meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
- mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
- needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
- new england — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
- new ireland — an island in the Bismarck Archipelago, in the W central Pacific Ocean NE of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. About 3800 sq. mi. (9800 sq. km).
- new zealand — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
- new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
- newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
- paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
- pedal power — use of a cycle
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
- scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
- self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
- slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
- swear blind — to assert emphatically
- sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
- sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
- sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
- swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
- the tynwald — the Parliament of the Isle of Man, consisting of the crown, lieutenant governor, House of Keys, and legislative council
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
- unswallowed — not swallowed
- unterwalden — a canton in central Switzerland: divided into demicantons.
- unwedgeable — unable to be split or divided by wedges
- unwoundable — incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed
- valley wind — a wind that ascends a mountain valley during the day.
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
- wait-listed — placed on a waiting list for a flight leaving an airport
- wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
- waldemar ii — known as Waldemar the Victorious. 1170–1241, king of Denmark (1202–41); son of Waldemar I. He extended the Danish empire, conquering much of Estonia (1219)
- waldemar iv — surnamed Atterdag. ?1320–75, king of Denmark (1340–75), who reunited the Danish territories but was defeated (1368) by a coalition of his Baltic neighbours
- walden pond — a pond in NE Massachusetts, near Concord: site of Thoreau's cottage and inspiration for his book Walden, or Life in the Woods.
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
- waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
- walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
- wallpapered — Simple past tense and past participle of wallpaper.
- walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
- wanted list — a list of people being searched for by the police in connection with a crime that has been committed
- ward heeler — a minor politician who canvasses voters and does other chores for a political machine or party boss.