11-letter words containing w, e, l, p
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
- policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
- policyowner — policyholder.
- potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- powder mill — a mill in which gunpowder is made.
- power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders
- power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
- power cycle — (hardware) (Or "cycle power", "cycle") To turn a machine's power off and on, with the intention of clearing some kind of hung or gronked state. Synonym 120 reset; see also Big Red Switch. Compare Vulcan nerve pinch, bounce and boot, and see the AI Koan about Tom Knight and the novice.
- power drill — a drill operated by a motor.
- power elite — a closely knit alliance of military, government, and corporate officials perceived as the center of wealth and political power in the U.S.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- prairie owl — burrowing owl.
- private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
- pupil power — the influence of or the increased status of the beliefs or actions of pupils
- purple wire — (jargon, hardware) Wire installed by IBM Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging. These are called "purple wires" even when (as is frequently the case) they are yellow. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, and red wire.
- scape wheel — escape wheel.
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- simple vows — the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience when taken for a limited period
- single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- sleepwalker — the act or state of walking, eating, or performing other motor acts while asleep, of which one is unaware upon awakening; somnambulism.
- 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.
- solar power — energy generated by the sun
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- spotted owl — a dark-brown owl (Strix occidentalis, family Strigidae) with scattered white spots and dark eyes, sometimes seen in the forests of W North America: it is an endangered species
- steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
- superlawyer — an extremely successful lawyer
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp maple — red maple.
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
- townspeople — residents of a town
- twelve step — of or based on a program for recovery from addiction originating with Alcoholics Anonymous and providing 12 progressive levels toward attainment.
- twelve-step — of or based on a program for recovery from addiction originating with Alcoholics Anonymous and providing 12 progressive levels toward attainment.
- 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.
- vowel point — any of a group of auxiliary symbols, as small lines and dots, placed above or below consonant symbols to indicate vowels in a writing system, as that of Hebrew or Arabic, in which vowels are otherwise not written.
- 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-copied — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- well-packed — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.