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11-letter words containing w, e, m

  • dumbed down — (jargon)   Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
  • dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
  • durum wheat — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
  • dwindlement — the condition of decreasing or diminishing
  • east meadow — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • embowelment — a disembowelment
  • embowerment — the act of embowering
  • emery wheel — a grinding or polishing wheel consisting of, or the surface of which is coated with, abrasive emery particles
  • empowerment — The granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group.
  • entwinement — A situation of being entwined; an entanglement.
  • farm worker — a person who is hired to work on a farm
  • farmworkers — Plural form of farmworker.
  • fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
  • fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
  • foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
  • foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
  • framework 4 — A European Union funding programme, the information technology portion of which replaced ESPRIT.
  • frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
  • gamble away — lose through gambling
  • game warden — a public official who enforces game laws.
  • gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
  • gentlewomen — Plural form of gentlewoman.
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
  • hammer away — If you hammer away at a task or activity, you work at it constantly and with great energy.
  • hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
  • hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
  • hardwareman — (obsolete) An ironmonger.
  • hawaii time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
  • hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
  • home waters — territorial waters
  • homeworkers — Plural form of homeworker.
  • homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
  • homewrecker — One who is blamed for the breakup of a marriage or family, such as an adulterous partner.
  • in the swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
  • inner woman — a woman's mind, soul, or nature
  • jimson weed — a coarse, rank-smelling weed, Datura stramonium, of the nightshade family, having oaklike, poisonous leaves and tubular white or lavender flowers.
  • jimsonweeds — Plural form of jimsonweed.
  • kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
  • lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • leg warmers — a set of coverings for the legs, worn for warmth or, as by dancers rehearsing, to prevent leg cramps
  • limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
  • madonnawise — in the manner of a Madonna
  • mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
  • makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
  • mallee fowl — an Australian bird, Leipoa ocellata, of variegated gray, brown, white, and black plumage, that lays up to 35 eggs in an incubating mound.
  • mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
  • marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
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