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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.
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