11-letter words containing w, e, m
- stateswoman — a woman who is experienced in the art of government.
- stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
- stemwinding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- storm sewer — a sewer for carrying off rainfall drained from paved surfaces, roofs, etc.
- storm water — standing water produced after a heavy rainfall or snowfall
- swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp fever — leptospirosis.
- swamp maple — red maple.
- swan maiden — any of a class of folkloric maidens, in many Indo-European and Asian tales, capable of being transformed into swans, as by magic or sorcery.
- swarm spore — zoospore
- sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- the new man — a type of modern man who allows the caring side of his nature to show by being supportive and by sharing child care and housework
- thimbleweed — any of several plants having a thimble-shaped fruiting head, especially either of two white-flowered North American plants, Anemone riparia or A. virginiana.
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
- time switch — Electronics
- time waster — If you say that someone or something is a time waster, you mean that they cause you to spend a lot of time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit.
- tongue worm — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
- tree mallow — a malvaceous treelike plant, Lavatera arborea, of rocky coastal areas of Europe and N Africa, having a woody stem, rounded leaves, and red-purple flowers
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
- trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
- twelvemonth — a year.
- unempowered — to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.
- unwelcoming — not friendly, hostile
- unwholesome — not wholesome; unhealthful; deleterious to health or physical or moral well-being: unwholesome food; unwholesome activities.
- vietnam war — a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the U.S., South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam.
- view camera — a camera equipped with a lens mount and film holder that can be raised or set at an angle, a bellows that can be additionally extended, and a back that has a ground glass for focusing, used especially for portraits and landscapes.
- vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).
- vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
- 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
- waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
- wall system — a modular system of shelves, some of which may be enclosed by doors, either mounted on a wall or arranged in freestanding units, for holding books, bric-a-brac, etc., and sometimes including such features as a drop-leaf desk or specially designed storage space, as to accommodate records or electronic equipment.
- wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
- warm sector — the region of warmest air bounded by the cold and warm fronts of a cyclone.
- warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
- warmed over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- warmed-over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- warmhearted — having or showing sympathy, affection, kindness, cordiality, etc.: a warm-hearted welcome.
- warmongerer — Misspelling of warmonger.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
- washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.