0%

11-letter words containing w, e, l, a, p

  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • 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.
  • wall pepper — a small Eurasian crassulaceous plant, Sedum acre, having creeping stems, yellow flowers, and acrid-tasting leaves
  • wallcreeper — A Eurasian songbird related to the nuthatches, having mainly gray plumage with broad bright red wings, and living among rocks in mountainous country.
  • wallpapered — Simple past tense and past participle of wallpaper.
  • wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
  • water plant — a plant that grows in water.
  • well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
  • well-padded — (of a person) corpulent; portly; fat
  • well-placed — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • well-played — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • well-shaped — of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination): a U -shaped driveway.
  • wentletraps — Plural form of wentletrap.
  • wereleopard — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between leopard and human form.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.
  • wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
  • whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
  • whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
  • wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
  • worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
  • wrest plank — the part of a piano in which the wrest pin is embedded
  • wrist plate — a platelike part of a mechanism, oscillating in its own plane, to which links or rods are attached by pins.
  • yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?