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11-letter words containing w, e, n

  • land worker — a person who works on the land
  • lantern jaw — a distinctly protruding, often wide lower jaw.
  • law student — sb who studies legal system
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • lawlessness — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
  • lawn tennis — tennis, especially when played on a grass court.
  • lawyer cane — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
  • leeuwenhoek — Anton van [ahn-tawn vahn] /ˈɑn tɔn vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1632–1723, Dutch naturalist and microscopist.
  • left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
  • lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
  • lie in wait — to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens (often followed by for, till, or until): to wait for the bus to arrive.
  • lignite wax — a dark-brown bituminous wax extracted from lignite and peat: used chiefly in polishes and waxes for furniture, shoes, etc.
  • living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
  • long-winded — talking or writing at tedious length: long-winded after-dinner speakers.
  • low-context — tending to communicate by electronic methods such as e-mail, rather than in person
  • low-density — having a low concentration.
  • low-protein — Low-protein substances contain very little protein.
  • low-tension — subjected to, or capable of operating under, relatively low voltage: low-tension wire. Abbreviation: lt, L.T.
  • lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
  • lower rhine — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
  • luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
  • madonnawise — in the manner of a Madonna
  • mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
  • 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
  • market town — a town where a regularly scheduled market is held.
  • marrow bean — a plump-seeded strain of the common field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its dry, edible seeds
  • marrow bone — Marrow bones are the bones of certain animals, especially cows, that contain a lot of bone marrow. They are used in cooking and in dog food.
  • marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
  • mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
  • mdewakanton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
  • meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
  • megan’s law — any of various statutes requiring that public notification be given of the whereabouts of persons who have been convicted of certain sexual crimes
  • mexican war — the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846–48.
  • middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
  • middlewomen — Plural form of middlewoman.
  • mig welding — metal inert gas welding: a method of welding in which the filler metal wire supplies the electric current to maintain the arc, which is shielded from the access of air by an inert gas, usually argon
  • milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
  • mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
  • mineral wax — ozocerite.
  • minesweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
  • mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
  • minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
  • money cowry — a tropical marine gastropod, Cypraea moneta
  • money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
  • moonflowers — Plural form of moonflower.
  • mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
  • mulled wine — wine heated with sugar and spices, often served at Christmas
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