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11-letter words containing w, e, r, d

  • dyer's-weed — any of various plants yielding dyes, as the weld, Reseda luteola, the dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, or the woad, Isatis tinctoria.
  • edward learEdward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
  • edward viii — (Duke of Windsor) 1894–1972, king of Great Britain 1936: abdicated (son of George V; brother of George VI).
  • elderflower — The flower of the elder, used to make wines, cordials, and other drinks.
  • equatorward — toward the equator
  • face powder — a cosmetic powder used to give a mat finish to the face.
  • fallow deer — A fallow deer is a small deer that has a reddish coat which develops white spots in summer.
  • fallow-deer — a Eurasian deer, Dama dama, with a fallow or yellowish coat.
  • feedforward — The modification or control of a process using its anticipated results or effects.
  • field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
  • fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
  • file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
  • finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
  • fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
  • fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
  • flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
  • floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
  • flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
  • flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
  • foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
  • forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
  • frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
  • freewheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of freewheel.
  • friendswood — a city in SE Texas.
  • frowardness — The quality of being froward.
  • game warden — a public official who enforces game laws.
  • garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • gopher wood — an unidentified wood used in building Noah's ark. Gen. 6:14.
  • grandnephew — a son of one's nephew or niece.
  • greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
  • great world — fashionable society and its way of life
  • green words — green bytes
  • greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
  • grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
  • ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
  • ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
  • ground wire — a lead from an electric apparatus to the earth or to a ground connection.
  • groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
  • groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
  • hand-worker — a person who does handwork
  • handwringer — a person who wrings the hands often as a display of worry or upset
  • handwritten — to write (something) by hand.
  • hardwareman — (obsolete) An ironmonger.
  • hardwearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
  • hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
  • hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
  • head waiter — a person in charge of waiters, busboys, etc., in a restaurant or dining car.
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