11-letter words containing w, e, l, p
- 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-priced — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- well-proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- well-shaped — of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination): a U -shaped driveway.
- well-spoken — speaking well, fittingly, or pleasingly: The new chairwoman was very well-spoken.
- wellreputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
- wellsprings — Plural form of wellspring.
- welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
- weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
- 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.
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- 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.
- whippletree — whiffletree.
- whistle pig — a woodchuck.
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
- whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
- wiper blade — the long thin part of a windscreen wiper, edged with rubber, that makes contact with the windscreen
- wire-puller — a person or thing that pulls wires.
- wirepulling — an act of pulling wires.
- wobble pump — an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.
- wolf spider — any of numerous ground spiders of the family Lycosidae, including the southern European tarantula, Lycosa taretula, that hunt their prey instead of using a web.
- wool sponge — a commercial sponge, Hippiospongia lachne, of Florida and the West Indies, the surface of which resembles the fleece of a sheep.
- world power — a nation, organization, or institution so powerful that it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events.
- worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
- worshipless — lacking worship, not worshipped
- 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 pine — any of several North American pines yielding a strong, yellowish wood.
- yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
- yellow spot — Ophthalmology. macula (def 2b).